Re: walter, don't you think it's time we talked?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iris Cohen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Now I think that this discussion is getting very silly and descending to racist
> stereotypes. Exactly the "us vs. them" mentality that the original writer
> decried. Interesting that we haven't heard from any black botanists.
Yes, and a bit sad too. A few years ago I went to George Washington
Carver's home, sat in his chair, walked in his garden, admired his
living persimmon fence, and sought to enter his vision of life. -- Do
you know any white people named Washington who lived after the
president (precedent)?

> The tragedy of Lee Boyd Malvo is a good example of the problem. He would have
> made a productive citizen if the right mentor had established a relationship
> with him at an early age. Instead, he got hooked up with a demon who turned him
> into a monster. And the demon himself probably had a similar history. And it
> has nothing directly to do with color. Remember, the majority of hopeless cases
> the writer was talking about are white.
> Iris,
> Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
> "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
> train."
> Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Ironically, we do agree on a number of points and there is much to
like and respect about you. Try gamboling in the sci. physics meadow
for a while and you might start to get a handle on that pedantic hen.

-Gaiawar