let's try to do nuance

[Harry Edwards]

You go girl!

It's obvious who has agenda.

Harry




On Mar 26, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Pepi Plowman wrote:

> Jon and Mike,
>
> Think what you like.  It's obvious you can't read.  I
> NEVER said that Israelis are reborn Nazis--my SISTER
> did.  And I reiterate--I am not racist, ethnicist or
> otherwise intolerant of anyone, except people who
> can't read.
>
> pep
>
>
> --- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:
>> Jon and Pepi too,
>>
>> Racial sense is a very complicated issue. For
>> example, I have had
>> 4 or 5 black friends in two cities  (I am not
>> counting Ed G as I never
>> detected any friendship overtures from him to me
>> poisonally) but there
>> was always a wee tad something short of total ease
>> in these friendships.
>>
>> Jews as such, identifiably jewish is got to be a
>> stretch for a non jewish
>> person not to have some sense of racial difference.
>> Or call it a
>> recognizable otherhood.
>>
>> Some never get over an imbued childhood sense of
>> this.
>>
>> Pepi threw us a bone. Its not only the jews who are
>> the troublemakers
>> disturbing our peace, but their genetic cousins the
>> Arabs are doing the
>> same. The fact that they are not genetic cousins
>> doesnt need to enter
>> it. Unlike Bush, I am trying to do nuance.
>> Poisonally I don't have a
>> sense of being a genetic cousin to anyone. Nor does
>> Pepi. Nor do
>> individual Israelis. So what does this all boil down
>> to? Somehow the
>> Plowman sisters drank in some antijew racism in the
>> course of growing
>> up, not unknown even in this country (we all do in
>> one way or another
>> about others) and it shyly peeps out when she speaks
>> as she did
>> about Israelis being reborn Nazis. Fits in neatly
>> with general buddhist
>> beliefs which like Protagoras' ruler are infinitely
>> maleable.
>>
>> Even if I know its there a little bit as regards
>> folks "like" me, it
>> doesnt make me like Pepi any the less. I enjoy her
>> and her wit when
>> I see her at the T & D Martinez' or at a party.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mike
>>
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