Ralph wrote: >> Jack, did we somehow do something wrong or that you may find offensive >> in helping those people out? I find nothing offensive with helping people, and I don't believe that I said or implied anything like that. But you can never tell how people will interpret what you say. Helping people does not offend me. What does offend me is this great American passion, the White Man's Guiltfest whose canon seems to be that the poor little nonwhite Afro or Latino or Asian... <fill in your favoite color or race or ethnicity> darlings are unable to help themselves, so we, the Great White Father, must reach out our hand to them, because if we didn't they'd be forever stuck in their depressed state. This attitude has produced a ubiquitous and pernicious effect: it reinforces the feeling on the part of many nonwhite Americans that they have been victimized by American society and therefore must be lifted up by "outreach" or, worse, compendated with handouts. It has produced in some nonwhites (and whites, for that matter) a downright hatred of America. I get excited over this issue because I like (I dare not say "love" for fear of offending the politically correct) America, and wish she may prosper. >> I don't know why but I am always saddened when I see a person turn to >> sarcasm. Ralph, have you ever heard the expression "holier than thou"? Jack Fu 47°38'N 122°08'W PS: "Over and out", as they used to say in radio shows. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 26 2000 - 08:56:59 PDT
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