OT: Not racest

[James Takac]

Hi Karl

On Monday 04 May 2009 11:50:20 Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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



Whether it dies ir not is up to us as a community. 1St quest I think is do we 
embrace the Ubuntu philosphy? If yes, then there is no room for these things

James