Re: RACIST

["Michael J.King Sr." <kingpin@primenet.com>]

At 08:27 PM 8/31/99 -0400, Dorine wrote:
>Just to clarify things from my standpoint, "calling the kettle black" is 
>an expression I heard alot growing up in rural Vermont.  We lived in 
>Boston and in southern NH too, before coming back to Vermont.  You won't 
>find a white person less racist than I am, but that expression came from 
>the old days when people heated water and cooked in kettles - when it was 
>black it was either old or dirty.  I never thought of it as meaning 
>anything else - never in my life did I consider it a racist remark, and 
>I've used it often.  I'm upset that anyone would think I meant it as 
>racist!  I'm also a little bothered that after all these years of using 
>what I sort of thought of as a country remark is now thought of as 
>racist.  Is it possible that sometimes people read that into things that 
>are never meant that way at all?  Just asking.

Watch out Dorine or someone might try to blackmail you! Ooops did I say 
blackmail? >G< Later.Mike


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