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To: KLP who wrote (256313)	7/1/2008 7:37:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

K, those expressions are currently used, as for example by Jesse Jackson [so casually that he claimed to not even remember using the expression in regard to Obama]. Harry Belafonte used the Uncle Tom epithet. I don't buy that somebody can OWN language and have sole rights to use it. To labour the point, I was making fun of the concept of "acting white" and accusing Powell of being an Uncle Tom and it was funny that the two Thomases are politically opposite to Obama, who allegedly acts white. And in that context, I guarantee that Thomas Sowell has been accused by people with colour of ASTM 5 level [and more] of being an Uncle Tom, though I don't have any references. It's such an obvious joke that it's as sure as a lift operator [they had those in the old days] having people joke to him "Your life must have its ups and downs". It's ridiculous that people go on clinging bitterly to the race debate more desperately than a Virginian clinging bitterly to their Bible and rifle. It's like relitigating the 19th century or 18th century in perpetuity. Heck, my father gave up feeling antipathy to Germans as soon as WWII finished and even during it, he wasn't so much angry as just doing his best to stop Adolf and his military system, while feeling sympathy for the opposition who were killed. We can all drag up past injustices, hurts, thefts and being made refugees or slaves [not us personally - just ancestors of 2 or 3 or more generations ago, who are obviously only partly related to us]. Mqurice