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To: MSB who wrote (14964)	5/2/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

MSB, I agree with you, there are varying degrees of racism everywhere. In the towns and villages of Chiapas there can be strong feeling between the mexicanos, who are mestizos of mixed blood, and the indios, who consider themselves purer and have different ways. Each side distrusts the other, incidents between them flare up at times, and much blood has been shed over the years. Of course, these two parties can be quite united at times in their fear and loathing and mistrust and disgust of the gerros, those pallid money-grubbing norteamericanos whose long sordid history of theft from and exploitation of M‚xico continues to this day, aided by the yuppie Chilango wannabe estadounidenses. One common T-shirt saying - "Comemos los Gerros" - 'Let's Eat the Blondes'. How nice that we of the SI community can rise above this sort of smallmindedness, and with our thought-formed electrons attempt to define a higher standard. Que te vayas en paz ......... marcos de Zaragoza y Nutut£n

To: MSB who wrote (14964)	5/3/1998 8:42:00 AM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

MSB If I may address several of the points in your post. First, about Louis Farakhan. Many people call him a racist.(I would certainly agree with that). It is not only white people that can be racist, All people are capable of intolerance and hatred. Second, I found it interesting how you were able to emapahtize with the christiians who are ashamed of the subsets, or fringe groups of christians who behave in ways that are less than positive. Two paragraphs later, you are less than willing to extend that same empathy to mexicans, based on "stories" that you have heard. Isnt it possible tht you are stories about the fringe element that the majority are just as ashamed of? Something to consider... Mark