Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Racial profiler gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca writes: >>I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that perhaps he didn't look like your average RNC attendee. Regards, Greg<< I watched what little of the RNC convention the major networks dared broadcast between "Fear Factor" and other incisive, must-see programming. I noted the broad mix of races in the audience, not just a few brown faces strategically positioned behind the lecturn, the manipulative political art direction scam made popular during the Clinton administration. Conversely, the people I saw protesting appeared to be overpriviledged, disenchanted white suburban offspooge trying to be important to somebody. Or at least get laid. I know the territory. I WAS the territory in the late 1960s. I remember Paul Krassner (sp?), of "The Realist" stoking the fires of discontent in whitest Lawrence, Kansas, at the University of Kansas the winter before the 1968 Democrat convention in Chicago. Back when I was trying be somebody. Or at least get laid. "Don't confuse this with 'if you come to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.' Our theme is 'if you come to Chicago, be sure to wear a helmet on your head.'" I summered in California that year. Where I remained a nobody. But the other part worked out okay. -Chris Lawson