On Monday 03 January 2005 06:24 am, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:04:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:15 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > > product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. > > > > > > What a loony notion. > > > > Then you go to Idaho or the American southeast... > > And you'll find exactly what the guy said: a few people are racist, a > much larger number are not. And it's really easy to not be racist in > the Pacific Northwest -- there aren't any black people to be racist > about! Before you start telling me about the 4% minority population > in Tacoma or Vancouver... No, Couer d'Alane, ID is *quite* racist despite having only one black person as far as I can tell. Scary place, I'm a Scottish white boy and I felt too black to be there. CdA is home of the KKK... -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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