Re: Race card....

["Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

No that I want to extend this volley, I am interested in how melonhead is
construed as racist?

Am I missing something? I call my son this all the time when he does things
without thinking.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: "Ryan Lee" <rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com>; <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:54 PM
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