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To: HPilot who wrote (81974)	6/30/2010 10:14:58 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

re Though often not officially sanctioned the North had their on segregation, especially schools. Seems...segregation... IS... (quite possibly) as old as 'we' are " Dance of The Tiger...." by Bjorn Kurtin.... Kurtén has managed to insinuate into his story - in a way so subtle and natural that we can scarcely recognize he is teaching as well as novelizing - every fact and theory that I know (and several, undoubtedly, that I don't) about Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, human evolution during the Ice Age, glacial geology, and ecology and behavior of the great Ice Age mammals, including mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. Stephen Jay Gould, introduction to Dance of the Tiger, 1980. en.wikipedia.org

To: HPilot who wrote (81974)	6/30/2010 1:39:04 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

>>NOt too mention, the south is solid Red filled with flks who listen to Beck and Palin who have the minds of high school kids. That is just good common sense. Something you could use plenty of.>> Two things: 1) Segregation which is enforced by formal law (south) is a 1,000 times wore than general racism found in the north. I grew up in California and there was racism. But blacks didn't generally fear for their lives and it wasn't very venal racism more just unfair. And there was no segregation in schools, drinking fountains bathrooms or restaurants. Half my school was African American. When I entered the southern culture, when working on the Alaskan pipeline with the southern pipeliners and playing poker in the south (Biloxi Mississippi), I witnessed racism that was so harsh I was shocked. As far as Palin, Beck and Rush, none of them is saying anything intelligible and their thinking at best is at the high school level. And I taught high school, and they would all only be C students at best. And PS, there is no such thing as common sense. Most people who think there is, use that word because they do not understand complex ideas like relativity and existentialism or social theory and think it is all just elitist nonsense. They are actually very important concepts.