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>From: nola@sun.uucp (Nola Donato)

What does the U.S. Post Office and Kinney Shoes have in common?

1000 pairs of black loafers.


	I am neither Black nor an employee of Kinney or USPS.  
	However, I am an employee of the Reed college mail
	room; my boss is white and his assistant black.  I
	find this joke profoundly insulting in light of the
	amount of work put in by my Black colleague and his
	constant good spirits and civility.  Please, no flames;
	I realize it's my own fault for not 'n'ing an article
	with that header, but I'm really shocked that someone
	could post a joke that is this blatantly racist.

	On another note, someone inquired as to whether
	feminists had less sense of humor than other groups.
	I'm a feminist, and probably humorless by some
	definitions, but I'd like to point out that I try
	to be sensitive to hurtful jokes of many kinds, 
	including jokes about any number of <state oppressed
	group here>.  I am not going to suggest that everyone
	should stop telling <oppressed group> jokes; but
	I hope that people who choose to tell these jokes 
	will think about the hate/fear of difference behind
	such jokes, and consider the possibility that they
	are hurting certain people far more than they are
	entertaining others.

Ellen Eades

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