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I saw on BBC. this morning a stunt where Market traders were giving away 5 pound notes four 4 pounds. Many people gave their opinion and then a little black boy said-''It makes no difference, if you've already got 4 pounds you can buy food and you can buy food with 5.'' and he shrugged his little shoulders. Aristotle, Plato-- here is your Master.
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There are ,I think, 3 possibilities here. 1} You're not bright enough. We can discount that one. 2} That my English was/is inadequate to the task of explaining that a black boy who understands that 'enough' is contentment and the desire for More is unhappiness. Or 3} I'm enigmatic !! Now I've always wanted to be enigmatic. My doctor {de Milde} thinks I'm Bizarre ,he told me that just after he told me the silly joke and before he prescribed the medicine for my {prosaic}ear ache.
So we'll settle on Enigmatic,shall we ? J.
So we'll settle on Enigmatic,shall we ? J.
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Moon Knight, I think you may be over-reacting. To the best of my knowledge, nobody in this forum thinks things like "this person is X colour, this person is clever, therefore I'm surprised."Are we supposed to be pleasantly surprised that the child was black?
I think we must'nt be too quick to use words like "racist or "kinda racist" because they end up introducing suspicion where none is necessary, and also because the word "racist" becomes so over-used that it ends up losing its meaning.
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Because the child was black......we can assume, perhaps, that he could remember being hungry....... and so his attitude to an extra
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad....
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He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad....
Rafael Sabatini