Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!rehmi From: rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Jackson Message-ID: <5562@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 01:52:43 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.5562 Posted: Thu Mar 1 01:52:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 00:20:30 EST References: <1317@ittvax.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 26 > From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP > > "Jesse Jackson admitted calling Jews `Hymies' in private conversation. > The Democratic presidential candidate daid in New Hampshire that he > didn't use the term `in a spirit of meanness' but that `it was in- > sensitive and wrong.' Jackson said earlier that he couldn't remem- > ber using the word." Are you complaining? Do you mean to tell us that you have never referred to Blacks as 'Niggers' or other words of such ilk? Or if you have, have you made a public apology/explanation? I can hardly claim not to refer to people in such ways, but then again, I don't fuss when others refer to my ethnic groups with such terms. bitterly against false piety -rehmi -- By the fork, spoon, and exec of The Basfour... Arpa: rehmi@{maryland,umd-csd} /* currently reliable */ CsNet: rehmi.umcp-cs@csnet-relay Uucp:...!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!rehmi ...!{allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!rehmi