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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: A Time for Anger
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Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 03:28:54 EDT
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	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.