From:	neon@******.backbone.olemiss.edu (Mike Broadwater)
Subject:	Re:
Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:34:24 -0600

>I wasn't pinning it on you nor did I say that NAN was a Utopia. All I
>said was that the comment was wrong (I have read both books), why would a
>racist land let the people thier racist about in thier land. If you
>remember whites do live there, work there, and even trade with the NAN
>nations. There is a difference between racist and biased, NAN as a whole
>tends to be biased. Take for instance the Russians, the older generation
>was taught to hate them, do we. Racism is what the blacks faced
>(Hangings, beatings, being drawn and quartered), the Russians just faced
>biaism (Ammosity and hate, with just a tinge of actual blooding). It may
>just be me (and it probably is) but it sounds like NAN is just biased.
>Gregg
>
And on the whole, that's exactly what the US is now. But people still call
it racism.