Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V8 #179

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In a message dated 7/8/01 1:56:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
TheWho-Digest-Owner@igtc.com writes:

<< Ashcroft  >>
Affirmative action discriminates against white males. Fifty percent of 
Americans are women who are covered with affirmative action and EOP laws. 
About 13% of Americans are black and another 12% hispanic. I believe Asians 
are about 7% of the American population.  All of these groups are included in 
affirmative action laws. This means aobut one third of Americans are white 
males. This is a MINORITY, so therefore affirmative action is discriminatory 
towards white males. Anyone who disagrees with this must either be a black, 
asian, american indian, a woman, or hispanic. A white male who stands up for 
affirmative action is truly a pathetic person. They must either be a liberal 
democrat who promatotes affirmative action only for his political self 
interests, a manager or human resource representatitive who, by law, must 
screw his white brethren for the sake of his own employment, or a university 
professor, who like the politician wants to increase his status within the 
politically correct environment of the college campus. I respect Ashcroft for 
having the guts to see this without fear being ostracized.

In the book: The Who, The Farewell Tour, (1983), author Peter Goddard says, 
"The Who are one of the whitest bands ever to play rock'n'roll." I know this 
is a little besides the point, but all Mr. Goddard is saying is the Who had 
an entirely different musical style from what they began doing and what their 
music eventually became. The Stones' music often is influenced by black 
music, but this is not true for the Who from My Genereation onward.  They are 
the epitomy of "white rock." Long Live the Who!
          Jon, in LA