Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/1/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: A Time for Anger Message-ID: <116@scc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 03:28:54 EDT Article-I.D.: scc.116 Posted: Sat Aug 18 03:28:54 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:12:35 EDT References: <122@bsdgvax.UUCP>, <978@shark.UUCP> <395@loral.UUCP> Organization: Santa Cruz Computer, Aptos, Calif. Lines: 21 *** It seems to me that historically people get rights when they take them. There is no central authority that hands out rights. An example is women. To this day they do not have the same rights as men. I am old enought to remember the civil rights movement. I remember when I was a child I went to the south and they had separate bathrooms for "colored men" and "men". I thought it was confusing. One thing that did not happen is that one morning all the wwhite people got up and said,"hey, by gosh, we have been denying black people and other minorities rights all this time and, starting today will give everyone equal rights." What really happened was that black people got very very angry, marched on Washington, refused to yield to whites and eventually burned down parts of cities. It became a simple practicle matter. Giving black people part of the rights they were demanding was more cost effective than not.