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Re: "White Trash"

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From: watcher_2000
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:00
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I especially liked the accompanying photograph which showed her light
hair in braids, her light eyes clearly evident, and her dress complete
with head scarf which gives her the likeness of "Heidi". She would look
at home skipping through the Alps.
I thought it interesting that poor, working class White folks from the
often disparaged "trailer park" could produce such a child while the
whole of the black race-including those who are well off-can not.



In article <39A13778.A7433D6D@home.com>,
  Ciccio <ciccio@home.com> wrote:
> watcher_2000@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > But with her brains, why Cal State Fullerton and not Harvard or
UCLA?
> > Cheryl Carlson and her 39-year-old husband Doug, a roofer, simply
don't
> > want their daughter that far away, or in a town without relatives,
or in a
> > city whose harshness would break a small-town girl.
> > Shawna's parents are paying for her education and saving to give
her a
> > laptop, something she's wanted since she was 7.
>
> Let's see, parents who want to finish raising their child right and
don't want
> to dump their 14 year old away from home. Parents who don't even
think in terms
> of the government or some other third party paying for their child's
education.
> Parents who don't make much money, but still put their child's desire
for a lap
> top ahead of their own desires.
>
> If that's "white trash," then we can use a whole lot more of it in
this country.
>
> Ciccio
>


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Subject: Re: "White Trash"
Date: 2000/08/22
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