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Personal Attack? - take that out Ms. Mitchell. I presume idiots & cowards will do that when able to be faceless, do not encourage them.
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Mary, Sometimes I am tempted to read, sometimes tempted to write even. Then, I realize, that no matter what I say directly to you, it would be received as some racist attack -- 30 somethang, white male here. See, the problem with your ideology (apart from its gross perversion of the truth) is a misconstrual in the nature of power. While I have heard it argued time and again that only whites are racist because they hold the power, power itself is properly characterized, in part, by locality. To put the matter differently, any ethnic majority exudes some measure of power, even if constricted by some other, larger majority. For this reason, your view of history is just as wrong as is your diagnosis of the present. Just write, if you're not able to follow. You have the email.
Do the police ever catch those doing the shooting in the black neighborhoods? Every time I read the news it says the police have no idea who did the shooting or why?