On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
"I favor discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color sex, age, alienage, previous condition of servitude, recent interstate travel, handicap, sexual or affectional preference, marital status, Vietnam-era veteran status (or lack thereof), occupation, economic status, and anything else I can think of."
I really wish I had the original newspaper clipping so I correctly quote the column, but it went something like this: Here in Portland, Oregon, we used to have quite a problem with Nazi skinheads. Not that they are not around now, but then they were everywhere. Being that most of the city is white trash, you'd think it wouldn't have caused much of a ruckus if they were simply beating up minorities. But its been my personal experience that they would prefer beating up "fellow" whites instead. That, coupled with the murder of Saraw, seemed to stir things up against the skinheads. Anyhow, that's my background to it. The column didn't talk about that. It was this guy writing about the Banai Brith (spelling?) in Los Angeles getting critisism about gathering and keeping records on suspected skinheads. Turns out they got alot of that stuff from Portland's own Multnomah County Sheriff, who releases thier police reports as public information. So this reporter decided to get some of these reports, and some of the records that the banai brith were keeping, and printed some. Like I was saying, public opinion at the time was way against the skinheads, and I was more than a little irritated at the time at them because of the roving bands of punks that made life in MY city uncomfortable. So I read through each police report, really eating it up. "White male, (his name,) apprehended for distributing nazi literature." "White female, (her name,) questioned. Wearing a jacket with a swastika." Stuff like that. Then the reporter lowered the boom. He asked us in the reading audience to substitute "skinhead" and "nazi" with "hippy" or "communist," and see how we felt about that. This was a very unpopular position at the time, in a city hell bent on getting rid of these skinheads, but he made a good point with me. Maybe someone could tell me how I could get a hold of the original. The paper is the Oregonian. I could probably figure out the reporter's name...if I only had a brain. I'd love to post it. Again, flames are always welcomed, as I am home sick and could use the abuse. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______ T E K T R O N I X _ C P I D _ T E C H N I C A L _ S U P P O R T _______ / Voice: 1.800.835.6100 E-mail: support@colorprinters.tek.com Fax: 1.503.685.3063 WWW: www.tek.com BBS: 1.503.685.4504 E-World: Keyword Tektronix HAL: 1.503.682.7450 AOL: Keyword Tektronix Service: 1.800.835.6100 FTP: ftp.tek.com ______________________________________________________________________________