Re: Will you VOTE? Why or why not?
P. Myers (mpwr@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:32:51 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, g. nelson wrote:
>
> God, how could I have forgotten I-200.
> I've been doing everything I can to assure that this piece-of-shit
> initative will not pass.
> The conservatives are insisting that racial and gender discrimination and
> bias are just magically gone.
> When one presents just a tiny fraction of the bountiful evidence
> illustrating that this is simply not true, I get told to go back to
> Africa:)
> Sweden's more like it:)
> Guess I just don't know my place.
>
> Gwen
Hey. You were just leaving *me somthin' ta say! 8D pat
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, P. Myers wrote:
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> >
> > No way I *won't! Gwen said about all of it for me (and said *very well
> > *without morning coffee, grrrl!), except for I-200.
> >
> > Here in WA state, we are considering rolling back years and years of
> > partial success in leveling the playing field for marginalized. Quotas be
> > damned...number crunching of *some kind is necessary, simply because
> > institutional racism (in this case, in hiring and education) still exists,
> > to an egregious degree. Affirmative Action is necessary--critical, to
> > continuing to keep the door of fairness barely ajar.
> >
> > My vote may not sway the decision on this ill-conceived initiative, but
> > the percentage by which it wins or loses, and the percentage of electorate
> > that care enough to (at the least) drop a marked envelope in a mailbox, is
> > so important.
> >
> > pat myers
> >
> > *********************************
> > You've got to dance like nobody's
> > watching, and love
> > like it's never
> > going to hurt.
> >
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You've got to dance like nobody's
watching, and love
like it's never
going to hurt.