Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:14:09 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Political Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Does anyone other than Ted wonder why I find him offensive?

At 08:22 AM 04/02/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Ted,
>         My twist on the name of the National Association for the Advancement
>of Colored People (NAACP) was intended to satirize their current actions in
>fighting a battle that is IMHO long since over.  My ancestors paid in blood
>to suppress the Confederacy's perversion of the American dream and I am
>willing to allow the descendants of the Confederates to fly the Stars & Bars
>and/or the Battle Jack in a HISTORICAL setting.  I am confident in victory
>and don't see a need to grind the faces of the descendants of the
>Confederates who have been Americans for many years now.  The fact that the
>NAACP is spending its time boycotting South Carolina because the former flag
>isn't FAR ENOUGH from the Statehouse rather than boycotting bad schools or
>bad politicians strikes me as a tragedy for all Americans but especially for
>those they claim to be advancing.
>         Racist?  That word meant something once, but in recent years, it's
>been so widely misapplied that it's come to mean almost the exact oppositte.
>         Ignorant?  In answer to Erica's question, the real Equal Rights
>Amendments are the 14th and 19th.
>
>Lee Strong
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ted White [mailto:tedwhite at compusnet.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:50 PM
>To: WSFA members
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
>
>"Strong, Lee" wrote:
>
> >         The flag did go away but the National Association to Annoy
> > Confederate People hasn't.
>
>I sincerely hope this was not intended to sound as ignorant and racist as it
>does.
>
>--Ted White

Candy