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2008-09-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2008-09-19 10:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 some sleuthing I see this comment about the author: I dont usually indulge. The past is dead like Elvis, and Ive got an iPod. But heres a personal history you might find amusing.

I moved out of my parents house in 1972. And until 1996 when I moved to our garden district, I lived in black neighborhoods exclusively. In those 24 years I was not called Whitey, Cracker, Ofay (for you older folks), Honkey, (I do miss the seventies) or Jew. Never. But the day after I published my first piece in this newspaper, I received a letter, without return address, which stated, People like you belong in Mt. Airy. And it has been downhill ever since.

Jim Albrecht, writer of the Snowden Report and newly minted persona non-grata Hiller, tried to confront the issue in a brilliant speech at the annual meeting. He never mentioned color. He talked about a sectarian animus so rare in the 21st Century that, with the disbanding of the Ulster Guard, perhaps only the Hill can still claim it. The Protestant-Catholic issue! A concept so encased in amber that in needs to be extracted from stegosaurus by Richard Attenborough.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-19 19:56|| 2008-09-19 19:56|| Front Page Top