Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tl00180)

Nicole Suter wrote:
> 
> To Bart Lidofsky: "I have just read your statement the 4th time. I can't
> figure out what
> you're talking about!!!! :("
> 
> Are you joking? If you are not, could you please give clear questions. I
> will try
> to explain as good as I am able to. Did you have a chance to go to the net with
> http://chat.accesscom.net/STORMFRONT/default.htm ?

	I now understand better your statement, having looked at the page (I
really had no idea you meant going to a web search engine; I hope that
explains my total confusion). Are you trying to say that I come off like
a white supremicist? I hope not; I used to participate in a BBS network
AA discussion group (and was specifically invited there by both the
moderator and an active participant who is a member of the Nation of
Islam, who were looking for conservative white who was sympathetic to
African-American issues, to credibly answer the white bigots present). I
was granted an "honorary brother card" by the membership there, without
compromising any of my principles (I took a theosophical viewpoint of
"What you do to your neighbor, you are doing to yourself, and vice
versa"), and actually got a number of the participants interested in
Theosophy.

	Going back to the racism in New York, I think the situation was
well-depicted in the Spike Lee movies, DO THE RIGHT THING, and JUNGLE
FEVER. A scene unnoticed by most critics in DO THE RIGHT THING, but very
key to the situation, was when a white yuppie who owned a brownstone in
the neighborhood accidentally wheels his bicycle over the foot of a
black resident. The reactions in both directions shows that, although
the yuppie has little or nothing in common with his neighbors, he is
part of the neighborhood, while the owner of the pizzaria, although he
has been there longer than most of the residents, never was part of the
neighborhood.

	Bart Lidofsky