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Tonya
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Politics Mondays: Latino Racism...Shades Of Black by Armstrong Williams
Latinos are segregating themselves in work and home, willingly cutting off opportunities, and generating feelings of inferiority as to their status in the community.
So indicates a recently released report by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research at the State University of New York in Albany, which examines how Latinos are enacting forms of racism on themselves. According to the report, Latinos who consider themselves white tend to make more money and live in predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, while Latinos who consider themselves black have lower incomes and higher rates of unemployment and poverty.
At least one major implication: Latinos in this country are adapting American ideas about race and color. Along the way, they are ripping apart their own culture, reinforcing racial stereotypes and imbuing dark skinned children with self hatred and envy.
This is a desperate situation for a culture that has shown an amazing resilience to overcome obstacles and push into the American mainstream. According to a recent study released by the Spanish television network Telemundo, Hispanic household income and personal consumption spending are growing at a rate that far exceeds the rest of the nation. The study reports that employment of Hispanics has increased by 3% since 2001, despite a slumping economy. Hispanic representation in Congress also increased from 11 members to 21 since 1991, a 73 percent increase. There are currently 197 Hispanics in State legislatures, a 46 percent since 1991.
Indeed, there is a good argument to be made that Latinos have made more gains over the past two decades than any other ethnic or racial group in America-and perhaps in the world. So, why are so many Latinos hung up on whether their skin color is fair enough to pass for white?
The answer has to do with a culture in flux, torn between their heritage where dark hued people traditionally occupy the dominant sphere of influence, and an American culture that constantly bombards us with the notion that lighter skin equals success. Felipe Luciano, a reporter for the New York affiliate of Fox 5, has smacked directly into the American aesthetic. "I' appear on black forums all the time, but I've never been invited on a Latino forum," says the black-skinned Latino. "On radio, but not on TV. I've even had ad executives say that I was too dark and that wouldn't sell." Luciano finds this particularly galling since the majority of Latinos-Ricans, Dominicans and Cubans--are traditionally black skinned.
Despite the fact that Spanish speaking channels have pushed into mainstream television, there remains few opportunities for darker skinned Latinos. There are no breakthrough Latino pop stars, movie stars, or TV stars that are black. All the soaps on Spanish TV have protagonists with straight hair, light skin and European features. The exception being the roles of maids or crooks, who tend to be particularly dark and menacing.
To some degree this fair-skinned fetish is hangover from slavery, when light skinned blacks and, in particular, mulatto children were granted more privileges than the other slaves. Over time, a hierarchy of sorts developed around the idea that fair skin was more socially palatable. "I just think that there is an unspoken cultural attitude among white and blacks alike, that if you have a fair-skinned black in there, they are probably more like white people than are darker skinned blacks…. I think white people feel more comfortable around fairer skinned black people," says Deborah Mathis, a syndicated columnist with Tribune Media.
A generation of young Latino viewers bombarded with the notion that lighter skin equals success have been conditioned to hate their dark skin, their hair, their lips and yearn to fit into the dominant aesthetic-a sentiment that gained expression in Maya Angelou's, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: "Wouldn't they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream, and my real hair, which was long and blond, would take the place of the kinky mass Momma wouldn't let me straighten? My light-blue eyes would hypnotize them ..."
It is this desperate yearning to assimilate, to be like the light skinned Americans who occupy the dominant sphere of influence, that is causing many Latinos to willingly practice racism against one another, and to tear apart their own culture.
Armstrong Williams can be contacted via e-mail at: arightside@aol.com
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=925 |
Tonya
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Colorism (Light-Skinned and Dark-Skinned) By Armstrong Williams
Three prominent black Americans stud the cover of the current edition of Newsweek. Each is accoutered in a dark, well-tailored suit and bears a look of calm dignity. The caption reads, "The New Black Power: Ability, Opportunity and the Rise of Three of the Most Important CEOs in America."
It is nice that black Americans have pushed so far into the mainstream. Plainly these three men - --Franklin Raines, Barry Rand, and Lloyd Ward--have seared through the competition to take possession of wealth and prominence.
So why am I hung up on the fact that each one is fair enough in complexion to pass for white?
Perhaps because there still resides in this culture a perception that the European aesthetic is ideal. Perhaps because we have been conditioned to believe that lighter skin equals success. Perhaps because-even in this modern, multicultural, multiethnic society-some black Americans continue to hate their dark skin, their hair, their lips. And perhaps because people of color continue to savage one another with pernicious little distinctions between dark and fair skin-a strain of prejudice dubbed "colorism."
Deborah Mathis, a syndicated columnist with Tribune Media, recalls an early taste of colorism. Upon graduation from high school in 1971, she applied for a sales position at a posh jewelry store. "You have such a light complexion," the employer effused with obvious delight.
"I was disgusted," recalls Mathis. "I remember thinking, what do you want to phase in integration a little drop at a time?"
Time and again Mathis has seen witnessed colorism snaking its way through the workplace. "I just think that there is an unspoken cultural attitude among white and blacks alike," observes Mathis, "that if you have a fair-skinned black in there, they are probably more like white people than are darker skinned blacks. ...I think white people feel more comfortable around fairer skinned black people..."
Felipe Luciano, a reporter for the New York affiliate of Fox 5, has smacked directly into that sort of cultural conditioning. "I' appear on black forums all the time, but I've never been invited on a Latino forum," says the mocha-skinned Latino. "On radio, but not on TV. I've even had ad executives say that I was too dark and that wouldn't sell."
This brand of racism is particularly insidious because it is subtle. Unlike the time when racists donned pointed hats and stomped down the streets, the colorist is subtle, their contempt concealed beneath the still waters of social etiquette.
To some degree this fair-skinned fetish is hangover from slavery, when light skinned blacks and, in particular, mulatto children were granted more privileges than the other slaves. Over time, a hierarchy of sorts developed around the idea that fair skin was more socially palatable.
This yearning by black to seem like their oppressors was perfectly embodied by the narrator in Maya Angelou's, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: "Wouldn't they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream, and my real hair, which was long and blond, would take the place of the kinky mass Momma wouldn't let me straighten? My light-blue eyes would hypnotize them ..."
For decades, the notion that lighter skin equals success continued to be reinforced through our popular culture. "If you look at the first people who were on the air in television, you didn't have the dark-skinned black anchor on there," snorts Mathis. "Even today, every time they want to portray a big, black menace, he is really big and he is really black."
"Are there any Latino pop stars, movie stars, or TV stars that are black?" wonders Luciano. He pauses for a moment, then answers his own question: "Other than subsidiary roles of maids or crooks, there are essentially none. All the soaps on Spanish TV have protagonists with straight hair, light skin and European features."
To some degree, the 70's birthed a countermovement amongst people of color that eschewed the European aesthetic in favor of a more self-consciously African model. Groups like The Black Panthers, SNIC, and Nation of Islam demanded that one's blackness was a source of pride, not to be repressed or twisted inward. Sadly, says Luciano, the movement also birthed a certain resentment toward the European aesthetic that manifested itself in a form of reverse racism directed at fair skinned people of color.
So how precisely does a minority succeed in this world and still manage to keep one's unique identity in tact? Does one assimilate and consciously try to go about things as Caucasians do? Or does one shake one's fist at the ruling class, utterly embrace his unique heritage, and all but guarantee that he remains marginalized and the social hierarchy remains unaltered?
These are tough questions. The answer is twofold: It begins with a certain pride in one's own unique heritage. It is sustained with intelligence. The combination of the two can largely murder colorism. There must also be a dedication on the grass roots level to pressure advertisers into reflecting the full spectrum of the community.
With pride, academics, and some not-so-subtle shifts in our popular cultural myths, we may finally move beyond such destructive and arbitrary judgments as whether one is too light or too dark.
http://armstrongwilliams.echurchonline.com/
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=535 |
Abm
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Part of what it takes to be an American is to help make, identify, exploit and hate the "nigger", regardless of his/her country of origin and ethnicity. |
Shemika
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Hispanics are racist long before any influences related to being in America. I’ve learned some very interesting things about their history. There are countless tails of how racist they are against the darker ones there, a while black I heard of how some from nearby countries went over and outright took provisions intended for Haitians because of their racial arrogance – also of the way they treat Haitian workers in the Dominican.
When I was growing up even the dark ones I met who came here were racist and didn't consider them selves black. That’s the same today. Actually back then the lighter ones loved to try to latch onto and pretend to relate to blacks here because they were this "Hispanic" minority. But they were all just playing a game so that ALL Hispanics, especially the white ones could play both sides of the fence.
They could all benefit from the minority status, white or black, and receive an additional privilege of being at least one step up the social hierarchy above blacks here at the very least. This especially applies to all the second and over generation ones who were schooled here, not to mention the added benefit of being a "white" minority. And knowing both Spanish and English almost guarantees them a job now, even excluding some others, especially American blacks. So the reason they're really showing their azz out now is that they feel they've basically accomplished what they set out for and they don't need to play the light skinned minority role as strictly anymore.
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Mzuri
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First off Tonya - WTF are you posting articles from four and five years ago? And if Armstrong is referring to these three gentlemen:
  
Three prominent black Americans stud the cover of the current edition of Newsweek. Each is accoutered in a dark, well-tailored suit and bears a look of calm dignity. The caption reads, "The New Black Power: Ability, Opportunity and the Rise of Three of the Most Important CEOs in America."
It is nice that black Americans have pushed so far into the mainstream. Plainly these three men - --Franklin Raines, Barry Rand, and Lloyd Ward--have seared through the competition to take possession of wealth and prominence.
So why am I hung up on the fact that each one is fair enough in complexion to pass for white?
Anyone who perceives that these three Black men could pass for white is OFF THEIR FUCKING ROCKER!!! You really need to get your shit together Tonya, and stop posting BULLSHIT that has no basis in facts.
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Abm
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Mzuri,
3 things I find interesting about what has been presented here:
1) The point YOU make that a mofo would have to be friggin' BLIND to confuse any of those 3 guys with being White foks.
2) Of all people ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS - that great Black advocate of Conservatism and Rugged Individualist kneegrow himself - consider it necessary to write an article about the finer points and effects of colorism.
3) I can't help thinking whether Franklin Raines' (your middle picture) skin tone contributed to his being booted as CEO of Fannie Mae a year or so ago for alleged accounting & finance improprieties. |
Cynique
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I always take whatever Armstrong Williams says with a grain of salt. He's a leading black mouthpiece for Conservative Republicans. He is dark-skinned but I wonder what the race and complexion was of the woman who brought a sexual harassment suit against him a couple of years back???? |
Mzuri
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I dunno ABM. I didn't even read all of what Tonya posted. But I went to look for the Newsweek cover and couldn't find it (because it's from 2002) and then I found pix of the gentlemen mentioned and discovered that they don't look like they could even remotely pass for white (to me). So Tonya either posts articles she hasn't even looked into, or she's just one of those Black people who falls for anything but stands for nothing. All she's doing is contributing to the dumbing down and descension of this forum with her garbage. She used to talk about interesting things and now she just rambles and talks about a bunch of nothing. And I'm tired of it.
As to Mr. Armstrong Williams, perhaps he's applying his own version of the brown paper bag test and if other Black people aren't as blackity black as him, he feels they can pass for white. Which is nonsense.
Let me post a pic of a Black man who might could pass for white:
 
That's Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., of Tennessee, who appears to be someone that is light, bright and almost white (to me).
I can't comment on Raines tenure at Fannie Mae, I'm clueless on all of that. Sorry. |
Abm
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Mzuri,
Tonya often exhibits the inherent problem with becoming too bogged down in retributive bias & rhetoric.
Harold Ford, Jr.'s lack of kneegrow pigmentation can be a tad unnerving. Hell. I'll bet even WHITE foks look at him and say "Dayam, man! You really need a TAN!"
I was being facetious about Raines. |
Mzuri
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Abm
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And "Tonya" has got me crackin' the fuhk up via referring to herself in the 3rd person. |
Tonya
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Tonya got y'all NIGGERS talking and comparing notes, ABM.
Tonya and others know exactly what they are doing. Okaaaay? |
Tonya
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ooops. |
Mzuri
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Talking about how stooopid you are is comparing notes? It's worse than I thought. |
Ntfs_encryption
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I always take whatever Armstrong Williams says with a grain of salt. He's a leading black mouthpiece for Conservative Republicans.”
Thank you. I used to watch Williams on a black program called “The Black Forum” when I lived in Japan back in 1997-99 (does that show still come on?). He was the conservative counterpart to James Brown, Barbara Mathis and Julian Bond. Plus I have seen him stumping for his book on CSPAN2 BookNotes before and numerous other outings. I have never understood his slavish compulsion to defend and promote the party line and agendas of white conservatives. He (like Alan Keyes) is a hard line Christian fundamentalist who sees no separation between his personal religious beliefs and social-political policy making (just like Dubya). I’ve always found him to be an oddity because of his passionate defense of the excesses of the Republican party.
I think everyone recalls the consequences of Williams less than ethical decision (greed is more like it) to promote the Bush agenda. He was paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars by the Bush administration to push its controversial educational initiative, No Child Left Behind. It was a conflict of interest scandal (even though he initially denied it) that cost him in more ways than one.
I remember reading a copy of USA Today when it disclosed that the Education Department paid Williams $241,000 to help promote Bush's floundering "No Child Left Behind" policy on his radio show, TV program and newspaper column. When he did that, all hell broke loose for the mascot of the Republican party in both media and political institutions. It was so bad, congressional Democrats and Republicans joined in calling for inquiries into the matter. I recall seeing him feebly attempting to justify what he had done on Bill O’Reilly's news program. O’Reilly smacked him around for his greedy and unethical indiscretions. Williams was stumbling trying to defend himself and finally admitted what he did was wrong. He looked pathetic and politically disheveled. He attempted to defend himself by stating; “I made a business decision and did not consider the implication for me as a media pundit and commentator, so it’s come back to bite me,". When asked would he return the money now that his unethical and illegal fronting was exposed, he empathically stated; “No!”. He kept the money and that was that.
”That's Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., of Tennessee, who appears to be someone that is light, bright and almost white (to me).”
Well….is that his fault? Is he responsible for his skin color? Should we subject him to special scrutiniy or hold him to a different standard because of his skin color? Should his skin color be an issue (being light complexioned) any more than Armstrong Williams (being dark complexioned)? And if so, why? Just curious…….
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Lil_ze
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armstrong williams was accused of harrasing a man. |
Ntfs_encryption
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"armstrong williams was accused of harrasing a man."
Uh oh.......... |
Ntfs_encryption
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Anything But Straight
By Wayne Besen
Conservative commentator Armstrong Williams is embroiled in a scandal where the Bush administration paid him $240,000 to promote No Child Left Behind. Democrat Rep. George Miller, who is on the House Education Committee, said the arrangement using taxpayer’s money was “probably illegal.” When Williams said he represented values, we never knew he meant the value of his bank account.
As someone who has met the slippery Williams, I’m not the slightest bit surprised that he pawned his opinion to the highest bidder. A few years ago, I was on the Armstrong Williams show as a representative for the Human Rights Campaign. From the moment our eyes met, we clashed. He looked at me and scowled in disgust and I glared back at him. I immediately felt that Williams had more issues than a New York magazine stand and was a master phony that dripped with self-loathing hypocrisy.
It wasn’t William’s right wing views that so rattled me. After all, I had debated many leading Neo-Puritans and actually found a few of them – such as Sean Hannity and Cal Thomas – pleasant and even courteous off the air. What unnerved me about Williams was that I felt he genuinely hated my guts because I was openly gay. This was no standard political disagreement, but a very personal one, where Williams seemed threatened by my very existence.
Our on-air debate grew unusually testy, with Williams teaming up with some unmemorable right wing lawyer to denounce homosexuality. Usually, when a show cuts to commercial break, there is a cease-fire in the culture war as the debaters make uneasy small talk. However, when the commercials came on, Williams’ gloves came off. He launched into an unprovoked anti-gay Jeremiad and bizarrely began defending his own heterosexual credentials.
“I know who I am and I know what I like. I’m a man and I’m comfortable with who I am.” Williams repeated this several times, not exactly sounding like the paragon of comfort he was trying to impart.
Unsettled by William’s surreal behavior, I did a Lexis-Nexis search that evening and what I found wasn’t the slightest bit surprising. In 1997, Stephen Gregory, a former male employee, sued Williams for $200,000 accusing the anti-gay commentator of sexual harassment. Gregory alleged that Williams kissed his mouth, fondled his fanny, groped his groin and climbed into bed with him on business trips. Gregory said that Williams – who denied being gay - fired him after he rebuffed the conservative’s advances.
Thanks to this week’s propaganda scandal - to paraphrase Williams – now we all know who Williams is and what he apparently likes: Men and Money.
But the greater outrage is not Williams’ despicable, unethical and unprofessional behavior. After all, it is not entirely unexpected that a black, homophobic former protégé of the late Strom Thurmond and Clarence Thomas who is accused of fondling a man might sell his soul. No, the real crime is the Bush administration’s proliferation of propaganda in what is supposed to be a free country.
About the same time as the Williams expose, the Government Accountability Office accused the Bush administration of violating federal law by producing phony news segments about drug abuse. This propaganda disguised as genuine news appeared on 300 television stations and reached 22 million households.
Meanwhile, an internal CIA investigation found this week that its former director, George Tenet, failed to adequately protect America from terrorism prior to 9-11. His reward for this historical and deadly blunder: The Presidential Medal of Freedom. And as we watch the CNN split screen, we can see the administration’s chief architect of torture, Alberto Gonzales, getting the nomination for Attorney General, while the booby trap called Iraq continues to bleed America.
The Los Angeles Times also revealed that conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted $42,200 in gifts making him by far the largest recipient from 1998-2004. To give you an idea of the extent of Thomas’s penchant for presents, the next closest gift recipient was Justice Sandra Day O’Connor who accepted a mere $5,825 in gifts.
America under Bush is a political Red Light District where the greatest sacrifice one can make is to lie in the name of loyalty. It is a twisted world of politicians pimping policy for perks and political prostitutes trading their reputation for riches. This corrupt system has a corrosive affect on the political process in America and explains the rise of dozens of mendacious pseudo-experts like Williams and Ann Coulter.
Fortunately, Tribune Media Services dropped Armstrong Williams’ syndicated column this week. I’m sure, however, it won’t take long before Williams resurfaces. Thanks to the Greedy Orwellian Pravda (GOP) there is a premium for “journalists” who play on the team. If Williams is fortunate enough to get caught in another couple of administration-centered scandals, he might even be eligible for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Unsettled by William’s surreal behavior, I did a Lexis-Nexis search that evening and what I found wasn’t the slightest bit surprising. In 1997, Stephen Gregory, a former male employee, sued Williams for $200,000 accusing the anti-gay commentator of sexual harassment. Gregory alleged that Williams kissed his mouth, fondled his fanny, groped his groin and climbed into bed with him on business trips. Gregory said that Williams – who denied being gay - fired him after he rebuffed the conservative’s advances.
And there ya have it. Is it true? I dunno......
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Abm
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Lil_ze: "armstrong williams was accused of harrasing a man."
Figures. Ain't NO hypocrite like a Conservative hypocrite. (See self-righteous drug addict Rush Limbaugh for details.) |
Nels
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Armstrong Williams has been complaining about colorism since the beginning of time. He ought to get himself a really "black" mammy and go off into a corner and have her watch him suck the d*ck's of the 10-year old's he's probably been trying to lure on MySpace.com. Give it a break. |
Mzuri
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NTFS - I posted the pic of H. Ford in an attempt to make a point. If that effort was lost on you, I would invite you to read (or scan) this thread from the beginning. |
Cynique
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Well, I'll just be. No sooner do I absorb the doubts expressed about Alicia Keyes' sexual preference than I find out Armstrong Williams is gay! Does anybody else beside me ever get the feeling that that geek Ann Coulter is a stallion rather than a mare?? |
Abm
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Cynique,
Actually, when I look at and listen to Coulter, I think of some noisy sterile MULE. |
Ntfs_encryption
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"NTFS - I posted the pic of H. Ford in an attempt to make a point. If that effort was lost on you, I would invite you to read (or scan) this thread from the beginning."
Otay...... |
Ntfs_encryption
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"Does anybody else beside me ever get the feeling that that geek Ann Coulter is a stallion rather than a mare??"
Please...don't even get me started on her! |
Urban_scribe
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Armstrong Williams has based his entire career talking about how downtrodden Blacks are in America. Yet, he has never lifted a finger to uplift the race. His commentaries only serve to place further emnity between impoverished Blacks and wealthy Blacks; light-skinned Blacks and dark-skinned Blacks. Like Blacks need more encouragement to do such or be aware of such. The only time Mr. Williams lifts a finger is to line his own pockets. |
Abm
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Urban_scribe: "The only time Mr. Williams lifts a finger is to line his own pockets."
Or, apparently, to feel-up the a$$ one of his male assistants. |
Urban_scribe
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Abm
Or, apparently, to feel-up the a$$ of one of his male assistants.
Urban_scribe
No you di'int! |
Abm
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Urban_scribe,
I said "apparently".
*snicker* |
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