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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (270)	9/22/2005 5:07:48 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 418

Gus > In the long run these reforms are more important than fighting racism, and in the long run they are the best way to fight racism. What do you say? I say that's all history now and that the problem confronting the US is one of survival -- with each man for himself -- and not one of moral niceties, like fighting racism. IMO, people are racist when it suits them to be, similar to the way a chameleon changes its color. I have observed, with both blacks and whites, that when the occasion demands it they are racist, and when it doesn't, they are not. I remember in SA, in the good old days, there were many occasions when the most vehement anti-black, Afrikaaners were found cohabiting with black women at night but in the day, in the company of their white friends, they were the bastions of apartheid. One can see the same hypocrisy/contradiction with certain Jews who vigorously attack any perceived slight, however trivial and unintended, as anti-Semitism while at the same time pronouncing any Muslim, in fact, any non-Jew, as the scum of the earth.