On 26 Sep 2005 03:08:04 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sun 25 Sep 2005 05:41:09p, modom wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:23:56 -0700, Denny Wheeler
>> > wrote:
>>
[I tried to trim this right -- hope I did]
>> It is my contention that any claim to validity to be conjured with
>> regard to that screed presumes a white norm, arrogates for itself a
>> racist pseudo objectivity that only contributes more to the social
>> structures that lead to this debacle, this national shame. Our nation
>> must not treat its citizens this way.
>>>
>>>Remember though that for the media, it's almost always about eyeballs
>>>in front of sets, and trying to get the most of those they can. Yes,
>>>there are occasional exceptions to that rule (just as there's
>>>occasionally a politician whose #1 priority is something other than
>>>re-election), but they ARE exceptions.
>
>What a lot of pseudo-elevated drivel.

If you are responding to the statements immediately above your
comment, be advised that I did not write them. The graph above that
is mine as is the graph below.
>
>> Media, schmedia. Maintaining that the coverage had too many black
>> faces in it is not a media critique. It's just racist crap.

>>>Maybe in a few years you'll have some life-experience on which to make
>>>these judgments. You clearly don't, now.
>>
>> Honey, I've had lots of life experiences, and the rhetorical move you
>> just attempted is called an ad hominem, a fallacious pseudo argument
>> equivalent to calling me ugly. That is to say it's childish.
>
>Apparently not enought of those lief experiences.
>
Since my recent, very minor brush with Rita, I've had any number of
leaf experiences. But lief experiences...hmm. I think I might have
once met a guy named Lief, but that might be wrong. I know I met a
really nice fellow named Bjorn back in college, and I do own a copy of
Pynchon's Vineland, though I never read it.

As to life experiences, I've had my share. I came of age at a time
when buses of Freedom Riders rolled through the south, when people
were killed for voter registration efforts, when my friends -- kids I
played catch with, kids I went fishing and picked berries with, kids I
liked -- my friends were content to keep black folks down. I've been
treated by doctors who had segregated waiting rooms. I've drunk from
segregated drinking fountains, attended segregated schools. I watched
as a public pool in a small Louisiana town was closed when the order
came that it be integrated. I saw a New Orleans amusement park closed
for the same reason. There's more, but these will serve for now.

It's been more than 40 years since that pool closed and I lost those
friendships. And still this disgusting racial divide continues to
poison our nation. This is a shame on us as a people.

>You're as much off-base and out of line as the OP.

I ask that you support that statement with reasons.

modom