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To: HairBall who wrote (45814)	6/15/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: ratan lal	Respond to of 58727

LG had a comedian (who happens to be black) as a show opener. He put down whites throughout his routine. He even "bad mouthed" a group of whites coming in late. If a white comedian had behaved as he has, just in reverse, the Rev. J. Jackson would have been on a plane to Reno the next day! I have always found it both humurous and ridiculous that reverse discrimination is OK. And wonder how long before we have a reverse/reverse discrimination. This happens in other countires also where a group that has suffered for years, now enjoys the most benefits and that too at the expense of the groups that have not suffered even tho individuals in the group may have suffered. An example is the untouchables in India. Now they have 50% of the seats in med schools reserved for them, 50% of govt jobs reserved for them and a host of other benefits.

To: HairBall who wrote (45814)	6/15/1998 9:58:00 AM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 58727

Larry I agree with everything you said. Been there... I just choose to not let it bother me when people try to slur me because of what 3, 4 or 5 generations ago my race did or didn't do to their race.

To: HairBall who wrote (45814)	6/15/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58727

Self-disparaging with regard to etbnic background I think the Irish and First Generation Irish have no problem with self-deprecating humor and also tolerate it from others. There appears to be something of a sixth sense, however, that this group innately has. It appears to be a sort of awareness with respect to how the person who is slurring the ancestry is using the slur. That is to say; one might laugh, walk away, or knock the guy's block off. I'm sure it's a sixth sense shared by every group of relatively "pure" or narrow lineage. Slurs are slurs, but the context of the statements have to be taken into account. Fuzzy Zoeller made an unfortunate mistake, for example; but if you take the entire context of the situation I doubt his intent was to slander Tiger Woods or his ancestry. More likely he was put on the spot and...knowing the media likes his quick quips...he messed up. God knows if I had won the Masters and he told a reporter I would probably have corned beef and cabbage for my dinner that night I would have laughed my head off.