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[rayzentz AT aim.com]

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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