OT: Not racest

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    I am an American. Most of you are not. In America the average person
> looks like what? They may be Brown or Black or Yellow or White like me.
> In the State of New Mexico a large number of Brown people were here when
> it was made a state. I married a Brown person 50 years ago. Our kids are
> White and Brown. Our maid is Brown. Our yard men are Black.
>
>    I have not liked the French country for a long time. They did not
> fight well and waited for another country to save them. I do have
> French-American friends who also dislike France as a country. It is that
> way.
>
> I do not hate any race. I dislike some people who are so ignorant that
> they can't tell the differance between a person and a country.
>
>    We support groups that help people with money every year. We can do
> this because I was a successful business man during my working years. I
> was color-blind to people applying for work. I was not interested in
> there color, I was interested in where they went to school. I had at
> least one Black, Yellow, Brown and White working for my company and they
> learned fast the color was not important.
>
>    So do not call me racest. I can prove otherwise.
>
>
> Karl
>

Regardless of any claims of racism, true or not, beginning
nationalistic flame wars does not help us as a community in any way,
nor does it keep the essence of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, which
should be respected even if you have not signed it.

I am sure there are a great many contributers and users of Linux who
are French, just as many are American (or Finnish, or of Earth).
Ubuntu and Linux as a whole are multinational, one's country of origin
should have no bearing.

The user was being annoying, yes. Everybody got the same out of office
replies. He was not a kid, was not swearing, and his country had
nothing to do with how annoying the messages were.

It would be nice if the whole topic was just dropped.

 -Steve