Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: More on KODA Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:21:07 -0600 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4185B9B3.5070000@yahoo.com> References: <41843DEA.8090406@yahoo.com> <2uj8rqF291po5U27@uni-berlin.de> <418509B2.8070402@yahoo.com> <41858B1C.7040602@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9vDEXCnouEnMJX67kalF7gL1BWvVlScy2lBbijfeJiJ72g3Sb+ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20610 FreddieN wrote: > > Very few people actually sit down and think about a really good reason > to become "racist". > If you're lucky maybe you'll never find yourself in a situation or > experience > that will permnit you to understand that. > Actually very few racists actually sit down and think of a really good reason to stop being racist. And I've been in many situations that have given me more than enough reason to be racist, some that I truly doubt you could begin to understand. I have chosen the higher road because that's what I'd like others to do. It's very easy to be prejudiced; it doesn't require control of our emotions. In large part the attacks on America came from a form of prejudice akin to racism; if I become racist because of their action then I'm stooping to their level. But that's my opinion, and to each his/her own. John W.