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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (122537)	12/13/2000 11:47:57 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, >RE:"I have observed a lot more prejudice up here in the short time I have lived in New England than I did in a decade and a half in Texas." >>In what way? Of course, I have an answer that relates to sports. The Red Sox were the last major league team to bring on a black player, and they didn't look very hard as it was Pumpsie Green. The Celtics, with their 8 of 9 world titles in the Russell, Sam Jones and KC Jones (and also Cousy, Havlicek, Ramsey) rarely sold out the garden. The Bruins, mediocre in that before Bobby Orr period, always did. Back to the Celtics, in the Bird era, you couldn't touch a seat. Sports is just a piece of it, and I can't explain the New England prejudice in an overall fashion, but GV is right. Ton

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (122537)	12/13/2000 12:21:40 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, RE: In what way? Just as an example, the nanny that my wife and I hired to help take care of our kids is from El Salvador. She speaks broken English, but is taking English classes to get better. She'll be a US citizen in another year. I see other people in similar circumstances for child care, I've hired other people, and there is no one on Earth that could do the job better. She truly loves our kids, and we are very fortunate. She moved here from California. She worked for a couple in California for a long time, and they gave her a glowing reference. She couldn't get a job being a nanny up here for a year and a half. Speaking broken English but fluent Spanish doesn't sell too well up here. Sure, there are a ton of bigots in Texas. The chief difference is down there, you can easily tell who the bigots are because they'll tell you. Up here, the bigots put on a facade, and it is only when they're confronted with reality that they expose themselves.