[lit-ideas] Re: Question
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:17:22 +0100
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 07:51:03 +0900, "John McCreery"
<john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> On 9/8/06, Steve Chilson <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So if you were a 1940s American racist, why would you let the Egyptian
> > in?
>
> That's actually quite easy. There's a long tradition of treating
> furriners as honorary white people.
I read somewhere, whether or not it is true of course is left to having
read it somewhere - but anyway, read somewhere that during WW2, Alabama
or some place nearby, they let Nazi prisoners being housed in that state
freedom that they wouldn't give the blacks who were American. Is that
true or just urban mirth?
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Steve Chilson
stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx
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