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  • From: rayzentz AT aim.com
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Judgement indicators
  • Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:47:03 -0400

There was also the fact that he was a divorcee, with two kids. But no, it was color.

I spoke with my uncle last week. He has become more and more conservative with every passing year. He's still far more liberal than I , but there is actually hope for him... ;-)

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 3:42 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Judgement indicators



Perhaps you mis-understood your grandparents; maybe it wasn't his skin color,
but instead, the idea that she would marry someone from California.....bobford


--- On Tue, 10/7/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Judgement indicators
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 3:35 PM
I do. It was a rhetorical question. Year ago, when I was
only about
8 or so, my aunt married a black guy from California. I
thought he
was very cool, and we got along famously. My parents were
very
welcoming, and they both spent many occasions at our house,
along with
my two new cousins, his boys from an earlier marriage.
They were just
a couple of years older than I.

Years later, I discovered that for a time, he and my aunt
were not
welcome at the house of my grandparents. It seems my
grandparents
were prejudiced enough that they dis-owned my aunt. They
did get over
it, and my uncle became an accepted member of the family.

I did not understand this prejudice then, and I still do
not understand
it now. There are plenty of things about people by which
they can,
and probably should, be judged. Skin color, and other
accident of
birth, should not be among them. I will always be
greatful to parents
who raised me to be color blind, and to judge others based
on their
character, and their actions.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 2:32 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Judgement indicators



On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:02 PM, rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:

> Obama has had several hills to climb, most especially
having a black
> father and a white mother. His judgement appears to
have surmounted
> all of those hills.
>
>> Which was the problem? The white mother? or
the black father?

Many people are prejudiced against black people for one or
more
reasons. Many of those people, and many others, have
strong, negative
feelings against mixed-race marriages. A child of such
marriages has
that negativity to live with.

But I think you know that.

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