>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/26/06 9:42:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> > mainstream20016@ writes:
> >
> > The character of the best Northerners barely approximates the
character of
> > mediocre
> > Southerners. Some of the most considerate, thoughtful, and
hopeful people
> > on Earth are
> > from Mississippi.
> > I am a native Louisianian, with ancestors there several hundred
years in the
> > past. I
> > was disappointed to hear knee-jerk racist expressions from
southern whites
> > about the
> > blacks who were stranded by Katrina floodwaters in New
Orleans. Deeply
> > engrained
> > racism remains in the character of Southerners, and casts an
ugly scar on
> > what would be a
> > beautiful face of Southerners, were it not for racism.. What a
shame....
> >
> >
> >
> > Racism towards blacks is not limited to the South. Yes the
South has the
> > legacy of slavery, but the slave ships sailed from Boston and
New York where
> > blacks have not been treated well even up to recently. And the
South had the
> > legacy of the Jim Crow laws which were a result of the failure
of reconstruction
> > policies forced upon the South by the federal government after
the freeing
> > of the slaves. And the South has the legacy of the Knights of
the Ku Klux
> > Klan, just turns out there were as many, if not more, members
in Northern states.
> > I personally believe racism is a human quality that all people
have to some
> > degree or another all over the world. The more intelligent ones
can recognize
> > it for what it is and make the effort to over come it.
> >
>
>
> Recognizing that someone is not part of YOUR "in-group" is a
universal human trait. The
> Japanese have entire sets of verb-forms dedicated to this. They
also have groups of
> native-born people who are STILL not eligible for citizenship even
though they've lived on
> the islands for generations.
>
...and who we call "the Japanese" are not themselves the
true "natives" to the Islands we know as Japan. The Ainu -- an
alleged Caucasian people -- are the previous inhabitants of Japan.
And there are only several thousand left. The orientals there that
we call "Japanese" came from China several thousand years ago.
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