Re: Ebonic Xmas

Paul Bennett wrote:

> What Roland ACTUALLY wrote (to David Bell) was:
>
> > And do enlighten me about this issue of the double standard,
> > and how it is NOT RACIST to judge a word's
> > meanings BASED ON THE COLOR OF THE SPEAKER'S SKIN!
>
> i.e. The exact OPPOSITE of what John "answered".
Yes, I over-edited Roland's message, but I did
intend my reply to answer the complete version.

=> (Oh, John, btw, I bear you no personal malice,

Ditto, indeed.

> I just find your position of clinging to past
> intolerances to be indefensibly racist.)
Perhaps if they were truly past intolerances, you
might be right at that.  But they are present
intolerances, daily expressed on the streets of
my neighborhood.

Also, I think you misuse the word "racist".

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