RE: FW: Off-Topic: Fable

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

Hi Margaret;

  Well...I won't take you up on your bet. (I think you're right!) Take care. ;-)

--Greg

On Friday, February 26, 1999 9:20 AM, Margaret Tarbet [SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
> Greg wrote:
> 
> >All analogies are weak in some respects. And I agree that there are many 
> >cases to which the following analogy does not apply. Unfortunately, there 
> >are also many cases to which it does.
> 
> Cute, Greg, :-) but i think you misspelt 'also a few cases to which
> it does'.
> 
> The image of the poor as indolent freeloaders laughing and lazying
> away the day while better people work their bums off has the same
> classist/racist basis as the minstrel-show image of Black people as
> grinning, carefree 'darkies' who laugh and sing and eat watermelon
> all day.   To put it as delicately as possible, Greg, it is a crock.
> 
> I would bet you US$1000 cash money that for every person you can
> show me who could easily get a good job (one by means of which they
> can support their family, if any) but chooses instead to rely on
> public assistance as a way of life, i can show you someone
> 'respectable' who is milking the system, typically for _much_ more.