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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (222494)	1/26/2002 2:33:43 PM
From: Mana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A white guy saying "blacks are the best basketball players", would not be called racist since he is ascribing to blacks a characteristic that says blacks are superior to whites. This stereotype might be called biased but not racist. CBS would say you're wrong. Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder canned for 'racist' remarks Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder is fired after 12 years as a CBS football analyst for remarks he makes to a Washington, D.C, television reporter about the physical abilities of black and white athletes. Among other things, Snyder, 70, says the black athlete is "bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when ... the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid." I would say biased would be along the lines of me saying Barry Sanders is the greatest running back of all time because I am a Detroit Lion fan. -Mana By the way, Barry is the greatest running back of all time

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (222494)	1/27/2002 9:52:56 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And implicitly characterizing whites as inferior to blacks, not with regard to transient characteristics, but implying that it is immutable due to race. Once one "sums" all characteristics ascribed to race, presumably there is a "winner", with regard to desirable characteristics. Thus, it is still implicitly racist. Now, it is true that the term "Uncle Tom" need not be racist if all that is meant is a "sellout", but the term has metastasized to a point where it seems to assume that there is a quality of "blackness" that the "Uncle Tom" lacks. It has taken on the implication not merely of being faithful to one's history or situation, but being faithful to one's "essence" as a black person.