The past may be imaginary to you, but it is my reality.  Sorry you didn't
have the opportunity to experience more of it.

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>Gary Bauer writes, feverishly:
>> It used to be we were united.
>
>When was this?  Who was united?
>
>Was it white and black?
>Was it christian and jew?
>Was it latinos and people of European descent?
>Was it working men and managers?
>
>I agree that the terms diversity, etc, are getting beaten to the ground,
>and that the concept is being used to create group entitlements that might
>disregard larger unities.  But, please, don't hold up the current times
>against an imaginary past where we were all united.  There was a unity of
>perspective presented in the mainstream media, say in the early 60's.  But
>that was principally because there were such a limited range of voices
>represented in the media.
>
>Eric Siegel
>
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