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Mercnbeth -> RE: White American only basketball league. (1/20/2010 12:00:02 PM)
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Maybe I find it difficult because I am so far remote from your generation? You're obviously very sore that you weren't accepted in the Miss Black America competition: proof, if one needs one, that discrimination is kind of a sucky thing.
I'm not "sore" at all - I see it as it is - prejudicial. I don't understand why you have such difficulty no such a fundamental, and accurate, position. I also don't think you are too young to appreciate that reality. My children don't have a problem with it.
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I just read that Miss Black America was created because black women weren't allowed to compete in the all-white, very monochromatic, Miss America. I fail to see why you rant and rave against it, when it was obviously a positive attempt at counterbalancing the blatant prejudice black people were experiencing, especially in those days. "Was" - Reflecting accurately the past. Rationalizing acceptance in the present insures its perpetuation in the present and future tenses. I "rant and rave against it" because it is always wrong, always was, always is, and always will be; regardless of the group doing it. If I cared, I'd wonder why aren't you doing the same.
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Certainly it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of this thread. But any excuse to derail with your own agenda. Maybe not, but is serves a bigger, and better purpose - exposing hypocrisy. Again - thanks for the opportunity!
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