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In a message dated 1/30/03 4:08:39 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< . it's just rare to hear a
brazilian, trinidadian or an african using the word (i live in nyc, so
the black population is hyper-diverse). >>

This is the same reason I don't care for the term "African-American" as
though you can tell which folks fit that label by looking at them! I had a
friend from Barbados, she was Barbadian, not African-American at all. But
being black, she got lumped into that label more often than not.

Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."

----Frances Hodgson
Burnett

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You started over "shut up" !?


Kirby was in my office last night, just coming to tell me something. He
glanced at my mailbox with all the "SHUT UP!!"s there, and he kind of tensed
up, and said "Who's telling someone to SHUT UP?"

So his reaction was like mine was to even seeing it written that many times.

Sandra