OT: Not racest

[Karl F. Larsen]

Steven Susbauer wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    I Agree but it seems not to die.

Karl