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To: Mani1 who wrote (2129)	7/2/2001 8:53:54 AM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 23908

A wonderful story, Mani. Hopefully, with the passage of time, people supposedly on opposite sides can connect on the personal level, and have that spread.

To: Mani1 who wrote (2129)	7/3/2001 11:09:02 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 23908

Sad story Mani... But fortunately hatred and bigotry are learned behaviors, and not instinctive. I recall a story one of my low brow relatives in Arkansas once told me when I inquired as to why the area they lived in the Ozarks was predominantly white. He said (he was 17 at the time), "funny you ask... some n*ggahs in a red camaro drove through here last year asking where all the "brothas" hang out"... my cousin told them.. "Well, the last 'brother' that hung out around here, hung from that tree over yonda".... At which these guys apparently mounted up and got the hell out of dodge. Of course, hearing him tell this story just made my jaw drop because none of his siblings had ever grown up around blacks, yet they had formed this intense hatred of them. And in the previous 5 days, I hadn't detected any sign of such overt racism. That's when I realized that I and many of my cousins really had very little in common. (Besides, when I hate someone, I like to know why, and I don't want to be limited by one color.. <VBG>) But seriously... these kinds of hatreds can take generations to work themselves out. And as Zeev correctly pointed out, what the Palestinians need now is more economic prosperity than nationalism. Hawk