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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

I'm not Moon, but I'd probably say something like, The guys in the
barn are talking about....

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Moon, You said you had worked side by side with "unpapered Mexicans",
> which to me sounds degrading, like they are dogs or something.  Are you
> sure they were all Mexicans?  No Guatamalans or Salvadorans?  Let me
> ask you this..
> Say you are in a big barn full of race horses and you are working with
> 'immigrants' who speak Spanish(how's that for unlabeling due to race?)
> Suppose you hear a group of those immigrants talking about a horse who
> appears to be doped.  When you go to tell the barn owner what you have
> heard, what do you say?
> A. I heard the Hispanics talking of doping allegations?
> B. I heard the immigrants who speak Spanish talking of doping allegations.
> C.  I heard people talking about doping allegations
> D.  I heard that there are doping allegations.
> E. I heard the aliens talking about doping allegations.
> F. I heard unpapered Mexicans talking about doping allegations.
> G. I heard the illegal immigrants talking about doping allegations.
> H. None of the above.
>
> Now, if you choose C or D, the next question the owner asks you is going
> to be 'what people?'.  If you choose G, that is threatening to the
> owner.  If you choose E, the owner will call 911 for you.
>   A seems most logical to me, but that would be labeling and
> grouping-which you don't like, so perhaps you would say B.?  B just
> seems awkward to me.
>