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Re: Race card....
Would you like the url for the Johnnie Corcoran "if it doesn't fit...."
club????
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: <shawnr@ufpi.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: RE: Race card....
> 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