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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid   
      
   BTR1701 sent the following on 09/26/2017 at 02:44 PM:   
   > Jim G.  wrote:   
   >   
   >> BTR1701 sent the following on 09/26/2017 at 02:30 AM:   
   >   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> Your Name  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It remains to be seen whether Burnham's African-American   
   >>>> identity will be mined for storytelling purposes. "Discovery"   
   >>>> hesitantly brings it up once, before quickly dropping it. It would   
   >>>> be intriguing - and timely - if "Discovery" explored that aspect   
   >>>> of Burnham's experience now and then, instead of assuming, as   
   >>>> "Trek" so often blithely has, that in the future humans will live   
   >>>> in a post-racial society.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's hard to get hung up on something as minor as skin color when the   
   >>> crewman sitting next to you is a 5-foot tall insect.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, that would bug me. For a while, at least.   
   >   
   > I wonder if placing a can of Raid conspicuously on your console when you   
   > sit down for your shift would be considered a hate crime?   
      
   I'd buy a bunch of the biggest glue strips I could find.   
      
   --   
   Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre   
   "I intend to save her beautiful, stubborn ass. And if you keep being   
   weird about this, I intend to poke you in the lung hole." -- D'avin   
   Jaqobis, KILLJOYS   
      
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