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Re: Color-blindness
There is one thing that ellinger says that bothers me. Specifically, that
lase can't change the way a person thinks. I'm not sure what he bases
that conclusion on. I'll use one of his examples, Seating on the bus.
There is a wide strain of "thats just the way it is" ism in this country.
For a long time Seperate but equal was just the way it was. Then the law
was changed, followed by a few years of turbulance and now going back to
segregated seating on the bus, in doctors offices, etc. is unthinkable to
almost everyone in society. Absent the change in law, i don't think that
would have happened!
Perhaps by making us work together AA will force at least some of us to
come to the conclusion that hey we are all just folks! Perhaps it already
has to a degree.
Finally, to those that say AA has failed. Typical American short
sightedness. There were 300+ years of discrimination in this country.
What on earth made anyone think that 20+ years of AA would be enough to
erase that. For those who argue for absolute equality under the law, it
seems that you should argue that AA should be limited to no more than 300
years!
Mike
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