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To: epicure who wrote (47350)	1/30/2008 3:09:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541859

I saw that anecdote when you posted it and I was surprised and disappointed, too. But even if that's common for her as she says, it's such an incredible distance from the way things were that it's hard to claim "rampant racism." A close friend of mine who had to duck for cover at his southern black college during the upheaval now affluently travels the world. He even toured South Africa a couple of years ago, for heaven's sake. It's a whole new world. Not perfect, quite yet, but things have so dramatically changed that "racism" has been defined down. We must not ignore the lingering vestiges, but neither should we lose perspective.