Re: RC: Re: RACISM

[Dbeverly4@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/00 12:09:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tracey@tbt.co.za writes:

<< Ah, but racists aren't concerned with the correctness of their xenophobia, 
are they?  Take nigger - short for Negro after the Negro river in (I think) 
Nigeria.  The fact that most of the original slaves taken from Africa had 
never seen the bloody river slipped everyone's mind!  And what about WOP.  
Stands for Without Papers - Ellis Island, etc - but certainly did not apply 
to every Italian immigrant!
    >>

One last time....can this stuff please, please go private?  I don't even like 
to READ these words and they're definitely not endurance related (at least 
not where I come from).  Thank you.

Sylvia