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To: rich4eagle who wrote (222407)	1/26/2002 10:40:43 AM
From: aknahow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Again, you are right, IMO. Blacks are not spining anything when they use this term. This is what makes the use of the two words, "Uncle Tom" so effective. Trying to think of a term that could be used, in the same way, to keep non black people in line. Perhaps that will come later.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (222407)	1/26/2002 12:14:51 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Say good by to Uncle Tom "A few years ago when I visited Xavier Univ. a historically black college in New Orleans, I was moved by a student who proudly proclaimed the university to be a school full of nerds. At a time when many black men and boys are trying their bes to act like mack-daddies, and bad-ass muthas, Xavier is saying that it has another image in mind: blackness has nothing to do with projecting a manufactured, crude street persona. Xavier celabrates accomplishment instead of denigrating it , and it makes no apologies for doing so. We desperately need to promote archetypes other than rappers, thugs, and ballplayers of what it is possible and desirabel for us to be-if for no other reason than that so few of us can find success on such limited terrain." Author Ellis Cose, from "The Envy of the World"