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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2950)	1/8/2006 1:58:00 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 71588

Peter, My Dad respected anyone that could get the job done, regardless of race. While the plant was in Houston, he had a lot of Tex Mexs, which BTW was not an offensive name in those days. When we moved away, it was to a town that had no Mexicans in it at all, which is unusual for Texas. When I was 6 years old, my Grandmother owned a boarding house in Houston, and rented out the garage apartment to a man that was half Mexican, and half Comanche. After Pearl Harbor, the place he worked for went into manufacturing war materiale, and they wouldn't take any one that couldn't read, and write, English. My Grandmother let him live there for free when that happened, and he was like a maintanence man around the place. In the evenings, I would sit on the steps to his apartment, and we would talk as he smoked his pipe. He said something that has staid with me for my whole life. "The color of the skin, is not the measure of a man."