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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser torx@joimail.com

"Where is the race card when we really need it?" You just put it on
the table! It is entirely insignificant what skin color Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's counsel is or which nationality for that matter. Let's
leave Aristide aside and look further up north: I am sure you are
familiar with the late William Kunstler, one of the foremost defenders
of the rights of african-americans. He was jewish. Does that mean he
didn't provide good legal counsel, that he shouldn't have received
fees when he did, or that it was plainly wrong for him to defend
people that do not belong to his own ethnic and racial group?

While skin color remains unfortunately a significant divider in
society to this day, bringing it up to discredit others while being
not part of a race that is discriminated against, meaning while not
being of african heritage for example, is exactly what is meant by
the word racism. Here is part of a definition: "Racism refers to
beliefs, practices, and institutions that negatively discriminate
against people based on their perceived or ascribed race."
Traditionally one use of racism has been -- to discredit blacks, when
working together with other racial groups. let's not continue in that
vein... Let's use that common sense you applaud!