From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 18:05:09 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Dimensional Traveler   wrote:   
   >>No, not really.  It just means that there are/were a lot more racist,    
   >>religious fanatics out there than many people were willing to believe.   
   >   
   >That certainly is true.  It's not necessarily the fundamental problem but   
   >it certainly came as a surprise to many people in my generation who thought   
   >we had got mostly past all that craziness.   
      
   In some parts of the country, I suspect we pretty much have.   
      
   In other parts of the country, we appear to have at least moved beyond   
   the more explicit and fanatical ideas.   
      
   But in some parts, there has been progress (thanks to various   
   laws/court decisions), but the fanaticism is there. Thus, when we   
   heard that the State Capital of Alabama was having economic problems,   
   it was not necessary to ask what the population was: this was the   
   'Bama: of course they were African-Americans. It goes without saying.   
   Or did at that time.    
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)