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No one can make you feel like a second class citizen without your
permission.  If you refuse to feel like a second class citizen, no matter
what anyone else says, then you are NOT a second class citizen.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Morris" <bobmorris@xxxxxxxx>
To: "David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Heidi Smith'"
<heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [RC] What's in a name?


> I am so sorry it discussion has reached this point <<<<It
> makes a bunch of people feel like they're second-class
> citizens in our
> organization,>>>>
>
> In life, you feel exactly what you are. A nomenclature does
> not make the person.
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Morris
> Morris Endurance Enterprises
> Boise, ID
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
> LeBlanc
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:16 PM
> To: 'Heidi Smith'
> Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RC] What's in a name?
>
>
> > Heidi Smith said:
> > One has to draw the line at some sort of performance
> level.
> > That level will be easy for some, difficult for others,
> and
> > unobtainable to some.
> I'm saying we're drawing the line in a really silly place.
> When you go
> around drawing lines, it has other effects as you've so well
> pointed out in
> some of the discussions around various rules. We've got a
> line between the
> star-bellied Sneeches and the plain-bellied Sneeches, when
> the bottom line
> is that we're all a bunch of Sneeches. Either draw lines in
> good places for
> good reasons, or don't draw them. Not drawing lines can
> often have benefits.
>
> > Heck, maybe if they lowered the
> > baskets a whole bunch and didn't allow other players
> within
> > 10 feet of me, I could play in the NBA, too!
> ROTFL! That's certainly a funny image.
>
> > What is wrong with that?
> It makes a bunch of people feel like they're second-class
> citizens in our
> organization, and I think that's a bad thing. It would be
> one thing if we
> drew the line(s) in places that really meant something. For
> example, if we
> said that riders with > 5000 miles were "Senior" (or some
> term signifying
> seniority and accomplishment) Endurance Riders, then I'd
> support that.
> Changing labels based on one ride isn't worth the side
> effects.
>
>
>
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