Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 21:24:46 CDT

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET

Subject: Re: racist terms



In talking with internationals or with blacks I've noticed I sometimes

use "whites" or "white people" with a bit of a racist implication. Having

grown up on the Mexican border, I saw lots of white and brown racism in

my "formative" years. And service on the Black Studies Committee and the

committee for special "developmental" classes for minorities added a dimension

that fostered stereotyping by means of these terms.



I also have have heard "meanest white woman/man on earth" and thought the

speaker was expressing some sort of pride as well as racial stereotyping.

(re Martha Howard's posting) DMLance