Geez, Trisha, we hardly ever agree on anything.  You are spot on!  What gives? LOL!

Kyle

----- Original Message -----
From: Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:04 am
Subject: Re: I dont think this is a Black White thing...

> Well, Deri,
>
>           I must tell you - what seems to be missed here - is the
> stereo type about white people.  I live in DC. I love the way -
> the black people here stereo type us - just becasue we are white
> and our lives are so easy - we don't have problems  - its best to
> realize the knife cuts both ways - I am with Ken on the black
> people I know are better off than I am. Bigger houses, nicer
> neighborhoods, better lives ( no 11 hour  work days for them)
> better education, sororities and frats, gold watchs, Movodo's,
> cruises and fancy vacations - its freaking shame the true issues
> never get addressed that the poor no matter what color get shafted
> - it so easy to pick a scapegoat, and never look at the real
> cause. Maybe becasue I live in a major metro area things are
> different -  the company I work for is really equitably racially
> and foreignly represented - of the 61 people in the office - 16
> are black, 16 are foreign, that's little more than half. but of
> the 61 - only 28 are female.  Our team of eleven is pretty
> equitably - 6 women - 5 guys - 5 black, 5 white and 1 foreign. And
> I must tell you the black ladies I work with have lovely lives and
> kinda fit the stereo type work wise, come in at 10, leave at 4,
> have at least an hour lunch, have great yak sessions, lots of
> phone time, and have a TV running soaps all day.
>
>
>                                                            Trisha
>