Re: cleaner wiring solution needed

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"Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Out here, most of the surface switches would have to be "pink"...  Most of
> the bigger houses being built out here are owned by people from India who
> just love that color...

PINK? Where's that ... florida?


Did I hear someone say PINK???




Subject: Re: ADEMCO

From: "Robert L. Bass" robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx

Date: 5/12/2003 9:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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>> Have you heard it used

>> disparagingly against a racial minority?

>

> Does not have to be aginst a minority to be racial. The word has been

known to

> be used to disparage white people in general.



Do you think I've got something against white people in general?  :^)



Allow me to clarify this.  I consider everyone to be the same.  Sometimes in

the heat of the moment someone's beliefs are lost behind defensiveness

and/or anger.



I recall one time when I was doing volunteer work (lay minister) in a prison

in Connecticut.  I walked up to the pulpit before a group of about 100 or

150 inmates.  I never asked to have officers in the chapel during our

services because their presence had a negative effect on the atmosphere.

This was a medium security facility but we had been going there for years

and I was comfortable with the regular group that came in for our services.

Sometimes one or two CO's would stand by the door but mostly we were on our

own.  In my 8+ years of lay ministry we never had an incident get out of

hand.



As I sorted my notes a young man wearing the religious cap of a Muslim asked

in a loud voice, "What's this white boy going to tell us?"  I looked up and

he was not smiling.  It was obvious he intended to disrupt the meeting to

spread his own message.  You could have heard a pin drop.  Everyone wondered

how I'd respond.



In prison ministry the unwritten rule is the same as it is for guards and

inmates.  If you allow someone to walk over you and don't stand your ground

no one will respect you at all.  I picked up the microphone, paused for a

moment and said in a strong, offended sounding tone punctuating each

syllable, "Excuse me!!!  Who are you calling 'white?'  I'm pink!"  The crown

erupted in laughter.  Even the would-be heckler couldn't keep from smiling.



Then I said something to the effect that only about two pounds of me is

white and the same amount of him is black.  Everything that counts is

underneath the part that sets us apart.  He sat back and listened politely

and the service proceeded without further incident.  I don't recall if he

came to any more services but I was always able to maintain control and I

think the main reason is anyone who ever met me knows I'm serious about what

I believe.  The other side of it was the fact that we only went there to try

to help and the men knew it.



Here in ACA almost no one really knows each other at all.  It's like the old

days of CB radio.  Everyone's a tough guy and the wimpiest characters -- the

ones the men we dealt with every week would have chewed up and spit out --

post threats and attacks all day long.  Pathetic.



Regards,

Robert



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