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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (155979)	6/26/2001 11:13:55 PM
From: Angler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dave: I could have said: "mixed minorities." This would really play ball with your head. My father married a woman (a minority person) but he also was a minority because his race was mixed and not of the majority color. I would have been correct in saying, "mixed blood" in my case. Ancestry is entirely neutral on the other hand. Racial prejudice makes no sense agreed. However, by applying the term "minority" with a broad brush and even lacking an antecedent in most context immediately suggests that someone is either getting or has been screwed or there's something for nothing out there to which some particular one is entitled. So we enter the arena of political correctness. Some journalistic pieces are prone to throw out the word like a net catching everybody, leaving it up to the reader to figure who they're talking about. I'm getting tired of that overused word written or spoken (IMO) in universal discourse whether referring to race, gender or preoccupation. It's time for a new outlook. Angler