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To: Neocon who wrote (85797)	8/19/2000 1:44:35 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If it wasn't for some very provincial thinking people, I'd be less worried about this. But, heck, give 'em a chance too. My wife and I just watched an Indian, sub-titled movie called "Saalam Bombay!" about a little boy from the sticks who was mistreated by his family and ran away to live as a street urchin in Bombay. It was really good and almost like a documentary - the street footage was clearly authentic. The relevance to this conversation concerns a subplot where a woman, sold into prostitution, loses her daughter to the State. This was a kind woman who was in a position not of her own making. The state home was more like a jail. Not a particular good set of parameters to work from in either case. In a previous scene we see a new, virginal prostitute candidate being sold by her impoverished Nepalese father who gets a hand full of rupees for her. So what degree of variability are we talking about here? Let Louisiana treat "blacks (like me)" any way they deem appropriate by local standards? That's a hard pill to swallow.