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Article #374Re: The "Sewage" principle
From: John Thompson
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:56
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:56
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Big Joe Spompano <penny@hargray.com> wrote in message news:<3D573EDC.7B1CD084@hargray.com>... > Was attending a fine, elegant dinner party the other evening at a > friend's estate. After a marvelous repast, all of the gentlemen > retired to the study to enjoy fine brandy and some wonderful Cuban > cigars. Of course the conversation, invariably, turned > to the 'black' problem and things became quite 'animated'! One of the > more liberal amongst us suggested that there is nothing > wrong with allowing one or two 'highly screened' black families into the > neighborhood! Said it would be good for the > children as it would encourage the teaching of Racial diversity. As the > debate heated even further, an older gentleman > quietly spoke out and encouraged all of us to remember the "Sewage" > principal. > > You have two barrels. One contains fine wine and the other sewage. > You take a teaspoon of the wine and place it in the sewage barrel and > you still have sewage. > You take a teaspoon of sewage and place it in the wine barrel and again, > you get sewage. > > Think about it. Good point. But how are we to rid ourselves of bigots (that's the sewage you refer to, yes?) like you, then? My experience is that bigots stay bigots no matter what you try. -- -John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a9ce,3daeffd5780a44b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a9ce,public X-Google-Thread: 10e835,3daeffd5780a44b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public X-Google-Thread: fcd36,3daeffd5780a44b2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd36,public X-Google-Thread: fa03c,3daeffd5780a44b2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa03c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-13 02:30:52 PST From: John Thompson <john@starfleet.thompson.us> Newsgroups: milw.general,wi.general,chi.general,balt.general Subject: Re: The "Sewage" principle Followup-To: wi.general Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:56:46 GMT Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Lines: 31 Sender: john@192.168.0.2 Message-ID: <slrnalgtbe.9hr.john@starfleet.thompson.us> References: <3D573EDC.7B1CD084@hargray.com> <40d221c9.0208120354.12063a34@posting.google.com> Reply-To: John Thompson <john.thompson@attglobal.net> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.101.12.222 X-Trace: 13 Aug 2002 09:24:45 GMT, 32.101.12.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news3.prserv.net!rhino-house!not-for-mail