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[uzoma nwosu <uzoma.nwosu AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:59:37 -0500, Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com> 
wrote:
> Uzi -
> 
> I'm going to invoke the maxim, "Never attribute to malice what
> incompetence will explain," and hope your experience was a fluke.  In
> some precincts, I'm sure Jim Crow still poops on the windshield of
> democracy.  In Chapel Hill, I have a harder time imputing racial bias.

I'm not saying that there was anything racist here though Chapel Hill
is not immune to it.  It's just something that I can't help but to
think about and as a black man you have to second guess someone's
intention.  Period.  That's just survival.

 
> Bottom line, though, is that I don't wear your skin so I can't tell you
> what happened to you.  I'm just hoping it was a fluke.

Well, that's for everyone else in that line to decide.  The staff did
their best but we still got frustrated.  Fortunately, not one caught
it too bad.

uzoma