From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 10:08:04 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Unicorn of Color
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At 11:57 AM 4/6/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Also, I am hesitant to call you "Black Unicorn," as applying the adjective
>"black" to a person is illegal in some jurisdictions, and "Unicorn of
>Color" does not ring true. (But I grew up calling blacks "colored people,"
>and gladly switched to the more noble-sounding "black" in the 1960s, and
>now I almost vomit everytime I hear some radfem lesbian claim "All wimmin
>are people of color!!!!" Yeah, colored people. My, how the worm has
>turned....)

But Tim, we are ALL colored people.  Even the albinos among us (since white
is a mixture of all colors).  Even the darkest among us reflect some light
which has color.  :-)


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