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To: sea_urchin who wrote (184)	9/12/2005 3:57:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

Re: You are absolutely obsessed with race. What is it with you? If you think you can upset me with continual racial innuendos you are wrong... Talking of "racial innuendos", do you consider yourself an "African" or merely a "British/Anglo transplant" --a sort of white immigrant living in South Africa? Clue: Gus > But there are some who say Cardinal Arinze is an intellectual lightweight Now you are being racist. Don't you know that every African is a genius?! I didn't but my government has taught me so. From your post: Message 21213358 And how's your pal Dr Basson doin'? Did he improve his handicap lately? Clue: Gus > what's up with your golfmate, Dr W. Basson? Yes, indeed. And a very interesting man, too. Message 20964163 Footnote: TIME EUROPE June 12, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 23 Reliving Apartheid Horrors The trial of a South African cardiologist accused of murder reopens old wounds By PETER HAWTHORNE Pretoria After two years of harrowing depositions before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africans may have thought they had heard the worst, and the last, of the evil deeds of the apartheid era. That was until the trial began of Wouter Basson, an experienced heart surgeon who still works as a part-time cardiologist at a state hospital. According to the 350-page indictment Basson now faces in the Pretoria High Court, he is responsible for the murder of at least 16 antiapartheid activists and conspiracy to kill many more. The trial of the 50-year-old doctor, which began last October, is likely to last as long as the T.R.C. hearings. Like that tribunal, it is producing testimony ranging from the bizarre to the horrific. [...] time.com

To: sea_urchin who wrote (184)	9/12/2005 5:53:37 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

Re: You are absolutely obsessed with race. What is it with you? Ain't so much "with me" as with the US social fabric itself... As the NYT article below shows, it's impossible to factor out the "race issue" in analyzing major US crises. White House Letter: Political recovery effort calls on black preachers Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 WASHINGTON From the political perspective of the White House, Hurricane Katrina destroyed far more than an enormous swath of the Gulf Coast. The storm also appears to have damaged the carefully laid plans of Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's political adviser, to make inroads among black voters and expand the reach of the Republican Party for decades to come. Many African-Americans across the country said they had seethed as they watched the television pictures of the largely poor and black victims of the hurricane desperate for food and water in the New Orleans Superdome. A poll released last week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center bore out that reaction as well as a deep racial divide: Two-thirds of African-Americans said the government's response to the crisis would have been faster if most of the victims had been white, while 77 percent of whites disagreed. The anger has invigorated the president's critics. Kanye West, the rap star, raged off script at a televised benefit for storm victims that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in Miami last week that Americans "have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not." [...] iht.com So, tell me Searle, who are the "race obsessed"? The 66% of African-American crybabies... or the 77% of See-No-Evil honkies?