Eddie wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:38:04 -0400, "Piedmont" > wrote:
>
>> "Eddie" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> SNIP
>>> I'm not going to tell you what ethnic group were those callers. But
>>> suffice to say that English was not their forte language.
>> SNIP
>>> Eddie
>> You are implying that all the people in the above ethnic group all across
>> America wish death to police and have yet to master the english langauge?
>> Who are these people, what is their skin color, what do they're eyes look
>> like or is it the nose, hair or lips that can help us tell them apart from
>> our ethnic group. I want to know so that I can avoid them, perhaps start
>> taking names and just in case, send them on a death march, if they don't
>> straighten up to our ethnic groups standards.
>>
>> Warm Regards
>> Piedmont
> Hi Piedmont. first of all I don't know you and you don't know me. But
> if you think I'm racist, you're very wrong. My wife is half black
> (her mom) my kids are 1/4 black.
> And because I've lived many years (I'm 71) I can distinguish between
> persons and pretty well can tell if they are black, hillbilly,
> southerner, Bostonian, Minnesotan, etc, etc. Hell I can distinguish
> between French Creole, French for Quebec and French from the mother
> country. (by listening to them talk, of course)
> I just simply said that the callers who were not unhappy that the
> officers were killed were of an ethnic race. Actually, I'll just come
> out and say that they were black. All of them.
> Implying that all blacks wished death to police by you is not what I
> meant. Sorry if you misunderstood.
> Many, many callers were black and supported the OPD.
> Eddie

Hey Eddie,

I knew of your wife from previous conversations and was a little baffled
by the words used. I now am certain that you didn't mean harm with your
words, but IMHO the phrasing could have been tuned better. Your alright
in my book, very sorry for the confusion and I hope we can be friends.

My late wife was Af-Am, a dark, gorgeous and highly intelligent
business women whom I owe my sanity to. My fiance with Puerto Rican
ancestry, is a wonderful, lovely and highly intelligent woman, retired
Air Force, who looks like the world all wrapped in one. While stationed
in Japan, the Japanese thought she was Japanese (slightly hooded eye
lids), in Spanish populations she is mistaken for Spanish. I think she I
absolutely beautiful.

I'll close with saying I'm very proud of you that you have seen beyound
culture and married as you have.

Warmest Regards,
Piedmont