From Thomas, on Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:21:45 GMT (in response to: response to Robert)
I must agree with some of the things you said. In America we are a very confused people. All of the wrong people call themselves American. All the wrong people deny that they are American. Everybody seems to be focused on the White majority of this country. Whites only became American when Colombus landed here. And the Spanish, and the French, and the Chinese, and the Africans.
Being American is not being White. Being American is not jeans and a t-shirt, skateboards, rock-&-roll, "Dude", smoking pot, and talking clear English. These twisted views of "White America" is what tears this country apart.
For me, there are only two races: God and Humans. The only thing that can break that worldly relationship is ignorance. We are all one. Sometimes I think that people see my blue eyes and they want me to hate them. When I don't, they get dissapointed and nitpick every word I say untill they can paste together their own racist message about themselves.
There is nothing wrong with people. There is nothing wrong with society. There is nothing wrong with you or me. Only as long as we all accept one-another.
The only problems are racism, ignorance, and interolerance. But,that is not enough to shade the light of the world.
Thankyamuch
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