RE: Race card....

[shawnr@ufpi.com]

I find talking about Celtics basketball pretty offensive lately, maybe we
should stop that as well....

Shawn (this is in jest of course)....

-----Original Message-----
From: cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca [mailto:cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:05 PM
To: rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com; Celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: Race card....


Ryan,

Nobody called you a racist, at least I didn't.  You could be a visible
minority yourself for all I know.

But the fact is that I find the term offensive.  It is offensive to me as a
black person.  Though it offends me, and I have asked for folks to stop
using it for that reason, I have not called you a racist.

As I said in my original post, I did not think you would understand why.

Let's get back to basketball.

Cecil



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Lee" <rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: Race card....


> I stop checking e-mail for 2 days to prep for a new
> job and I get called a racist for calling Walker a
> melonhead?!?  Just who the hell do you people think
> you are?  You get frustrated because you can't
> suppress what I say so you call me a racist to stop me
> ?
> This is stretching here folks.  I didn't even call him
> Watermelonhead or use any indirect or direct epithets
> but yet you fools were able to make an inference like
> this?  The only thing I have derided him on is his
> lack of game and poor strategy.  What next?  If I
> describe a player as a workhorse on the court, are you
> gonna take that as me calling that person a slave?
> You guys really went too far on this one.  Melonhead
> is a common phrase to describing someone with a large
> head or someone who is stupid.  I could have used
> pumpkinhead but melonhead sounds funnier to me and
> it's alot shorter to type.  Don't tell me none of you
> have heard this phrase on TV.  Get a clue melonheads.
>
> R
> Find a job, post your resume.
> http://careers.yahoo.com