Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!london From: london@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (David London) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Middle/Working class; response to N. Weidenhofer Message-ID: <382@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 12:05:28 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.382 Posted: Thu Aug 16 12:05:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:08:50 EDT Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 29 <> 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 ..!ihnp4!oddjob!london