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From: london@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (David London)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Middle/Working class; response to N. Weidenhofer
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 12:05:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 12:05:28 1984
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	I had almost decided that I'd had enough of this (boy, what a relief
that would be to some of you!), when I read this:

>> : D. London
>  : N. Weidenhofer

>> Most people on the net are middle class; most people in the States are
>> working class.

>	One of the things that I think IS great about America is that,
> for the most part, these are the same class.

I have responded to him by mail, but this statement of his is so unbelievable
that I had to comment on it on the net.


	This has got to be one of the most stupid, near-sighted, close-minded,
unobservant statements that I have ever heard/read. James Baldwin (or Leroi
Jones, I don't remember which [if you don't know who they are, read!]) said,
"the purpose of blacks in american society is to define bottom". For N.W. to
sit at his computer, with his x-thousand dollar a year job, and say that, for
the most part, blacks (and hispanics and immigrant workers, etc.) have it 
about as good as he does is totally unbelievable. I don't know why I expect
americans to know about other countries. If N.W. is at all representative, you
don't know much about your own!

					David London
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