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To: Ilaine who wrote (34256)	4/10/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Respond to of 108807

Blue, maybe you need to talk to working class Black people to understand what they still face on a daily basis. Yes, the Rosewoods are now dim memories, and the fact that they were isolated simply makes them more like pogroms than genocide is beside the point. People were murdered and the government winked. And genocide was carried out on American Indians. I discovered that in parts of Washington State young men would go out with rifles to shoot down Indians as sport, just as they might shoot rats at garbage dumps. What would you call the army entire destroying villages? And glorifying these actions by calling them wars? The Indians were stone-age peoples confronted with modern weaponry. Certainly things have improved. But we still have a long way to go. And we are still reaping the crop from the seeds of racism. A second-class citizenship mentality has taken its toll on black communities who believe (whether it is true or not is beside the point) that it is pointless to try. Maybe this is the source of much of the economic disparity we see? You noted: We see on TV that some of the worst offenders are policemen [in Serbia and Kosovo] Isn't that also true of New York and Los Angeles? I certainly don't mean to paint us with the same brush as I would use for Serbia, but it is naive to think that our souls are pure. TTFN, CTC