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To: Dayuhan who wrote (34251)	4/10/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Steven, you are absolutely right that the gap goes beyond ignorance. However, I am not sure that the problem always lies in failure of imagination (inability to grasp situations that transcend one's experience). Sometimes, it seems to me, a failure of logic is involved: that is, an inability to see the difference between apples & oranges. And sometimes it is rooted in sheer intellectual frivolity: that is, in an unwillingness to take anything seriously, coupled with a readiness to reduce every discussion to the level of banter. Joan

To: Dayuhan who wrote (34251)	4/10/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Steven, I disagree. I think that it is simply a case of hyperbole with a view towards mobilizing popular opinion. But the fact remains that when you deal with it at the level of the individual the effect is no different. On the other hand, the groups screaming about Ruby Ridge or Waco are generally silent about pervasive racism in this country. Black people in this country have been subject to a continuing perversion of the legal principals the rest of us take for granted. For example, I tutor several black people in a literacy program. The thing I hear over and over again is how they are treated by the police. They feel that they are immediately suspected of wrong doing regardless of whether or not a crime has taken place. They find themselves pulled over and questioned if they are driving in an affluent white neighborhood. They find themselves routinely "rousted" on the basis of no eveidence. And they have been relegated to the status of second class citizens. And sometimes, as in recent cases in New York and Los Angeles, they are shot down for no reason other than they are Black. How do you characterize that behavior? Certainly, it is not as extreme as "ethnic cleansing", but it also goes well beyond over-zealousness on the part of law enforcement. TTFN, CTC