Ed, thank you for taking the time to reply to my post, you always come trough as a nice man. Let me try to explain my comment about racism and the sport dying. SOME of the show exhibitors are socially rejected outside from the dog world, SOME are not very educated, well traveled, or financially in the upper brackets. These characteristics makes them rejects in the real word, but eventually they find a nit ch in the gsd dog world making them feel special. This special feeling is the only venue to be like their fellow more prosperous own kind, so now they want to perpetuate the rejection that usually they feel outside the shows by discriminating others. When new people try to enter the world of showing, the rejects protect their nit ch against newbies, not well experienced, or too rich. New people who just want to show the dogs end up leaving, like myself, because all I wanted was to own a well bred animal. About my ethnicity, I'm Native American, German and Spanish. I have not been discriminated yet, maybe because I'm Muscled, dark and handsome. LOL Antonio _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================