Rigney's Rant

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Wed Feb 26 06:25:59 CST 1997


You, Craig, have apparently not been perceived by the "savvy" Rigney 
as being part of the Cabal, perhaps because you haven't labeled 
anything or anyone racist. I had the audacity to suggest that a 
"joke" that trades soley on race is racist, and I even suggested that 
I recognize racism within myself.

On 26 Feb 97 at 9:13, Craig Clark wrote:

> John Rigney <jrigney at rigneyassoc.com> rants:
> 
> > Following is a content analysis of the roughly seventeen responses
> > to Gary Elshaw's posting of the Lord's Prayer in Ebonics:
> > 
> >... [snip]... vehement personal assaults on a whole buncha
> >p-listers...
> 
> > AFTERNOTE:  If, by some utterly unjustifiable misinterpretation of
> > my comments, anyone were to take offense at any of my comments, I
> > apologize if any of my remarks could be construed to suggest that
> > JOHN MASCARO is lower than fucking POND SCUM because clearly that
> > would be up to the reader to determine, wouldn't it, and just
> > because HENRY M's mother didn't know exactly which of the Green
> > Bay Packers was his father is no reason to hold that against this
> > BOTTOM-FEEDER FROM HELL, and I guess I hope that no one took
> > offense at any of my observations about that DUMPSTER-DIVER BONNIE
> > KYBURZ.
> 
> I am most offended by Rigney's post. There I was, happily pitching
> into the debate, and I didn't even get a mention.... Why this
> favouritism, Rigney?
> 
> 
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
>  the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
>  on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
> 

AsB4

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