Posted by Alex "Mad Mutt" Mutter on 5/1/2008, 9:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Racial wrongs and Wright"
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Notes On Colors:
An Old Quotation: "Red & Yellow, Black & White, they are precious in HIS sight". Long ago, I learned to judge people by the "content of their character", thanks to the late Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. These days, I try to judge people on these colors, Gold or Red. If I see you as Gold, based on the way you treat me, I'm thinking of the Golden Rule (Do Unto Others......), Good as Gold, etc., I accord you all the brotherly, citizenly respect I can bestow. If I see you as RED (NOT indiginous Americans), as in the Devil , the flames of Hell,
unjustly spilled Blood, well, I think you intelligent folk out there get the picture. I try my best to avoid you folk at all costs. I embrace Gold People whenever and wherever I meet them. It may be at the market, at work, at play, or whatever. I try to avoid Red People, mostly so I won't have to be tempted to shoot them. The actual color of their native-born skin matters not a whit to me. It's all in how they treat me, and how I react in kind, or in kindness, as the situation seems to require. As I have aged a bit (60 now and hopeful), I even tolerate a little more of the everyday "intolerable", i.e., cut off in traffic by a driving phone freak, ignored at the checkout counter by a teen-twenty-something who would rather hit on the bagboy, being talked down to by a bored DMV clerk, etc. Well, fellow Prexies, that's pretty much it for the old Mad Mutt's blather on racism. However, I agree with other posters who posit that we, as Americans, still have a long way to go.
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