Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kirk!williams From: williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: interracial extravaganza : fad or friction Message-ID: <3674@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 18:09:29 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3674 Posted: Tue Sep 18 18:09:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 05:30:02 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 36 I present to you my standard response to `` Black meets White '': It's only a color. Anything else is kind of like selling your soul. It depersonalizes individuals and contributes to racism. Any relationship is based on foundation and common interest. To use others to glorify yourself can only end in tragedy. Ultimately, there will be no one who will be harsher judge than yourself. I would prefer not to contribute to this style of thought, I thought we were trying to relate personal experience. The friends I associate with understand this, that the only means of relating is on equal terms, and that the rest of the world is not involved in your relationship. Otherwise, be prepared for peyton place deja vu. There are more important things to consider in a relationship. Things like trust, things like courage, things like intelligence. A person's physical features are the first thing I notice, but are the last things I consider. I must sense that that person has what I consider real values. In short, could we change the subject? ----{ john williams }---- < the color of man is in his imagination > (DEC E-NET) KIRK::WILLIAMS (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kirk!williams (ARPA) williams%kirk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA williams%kirk.DEC@Purdue-Merlin.ARPA