Re: Ontario University Professor whines 'racism!'.

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From: Rob Lee
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:00

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hurricane, @, ezpost.com wrote:

> >Adrienne Clarkson lived here pretty well all her life (from the age of
> >3) and contributed a lot to Canadian society, not least through her work
> >on CBC. She is as worthy as any other involved Canadian. And I thought
> >being Canadian was based on your sense of belonging, not on where you
> >were born...
> 
> pretty well  all her life but not born here
> beiing a refugee she had a free ride
> To bad she isnt white and born here
> I,m sure there are pleanty of true canadians

By your argument, maybe the only people who should be governor-general
should be the Natives, not Whites. They have been here the whole time
after all...

> I thought you should take pride where you were born
> if not  you are a traitor.

A traitor would be someone who tries to undermine everything their
fellow citizens worked so hard to achieve. In THIS case, Hurricane, you
are trying to undermine the whole foundation of our society, that being
the integration of cultures from everywhere into one (overly quick
summation but it will have to do for now, I'm not writing a PhD thesis
or anything here...)

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From: Rob Lee <rdlee@ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Re: Ontario University Professor whines 'racism!'.
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