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Date:         Fri, 23 Jun 95 09:31:54 +0200
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From:         verbeek@the-hague.stbv.slb.com (brian verbeek)
Subject:      Re:a racial issue??????

> > No one is trying to make a racial > issue out of it except for you. Get a life! > > I would like to be counted as someone else who suspects that > there is a racial element to the story. The description of > feeling righteous while vandalizing someone's car made me > very uncomfortable. > > In tight parking spaces it is often unavoidable that a door > touches the adjoining car. I have gotten and given a few accidental > paint smudges over the years. In no way can I equate accidental > rubbing of paint with deliberate gouging of the side of someone's > car with a hunting knife. > > The subtext of the story seemed to me to be one of "getting > even with a black person with a bad attitude". That, to me, > is a racial issue. > > / Lars Poulsen >

Please gentlemen, what is this ? trying to find a racial issue

when there is none ? Please Remember that we all subscribed here

to share our VW hobby.

Thank you. Brian.


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