"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Thu 27 Jul 2017 11:11:15a, tert in seattle told us...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Thu 27 Jul 2017 10:22:09a, tert in seattle told us...
>>>
>>>> "Good morning. A squirrel ate the tomatoes growing in my yard,
>>>> that I had been tending closely in the heat, that I had
>>>> fertilized with a tincture of seaweed, that I had put on a table
>>>> so that they could grab a little more sun, that I had talked to
>>>> because some people believe that helps them grow. He was a big
>>>> fellow with haunted eyes, more dirty-blond than gray, with a
>>>> long, unkempt tail, and he took from me my dream for a no-recipe
>>>> recipe for tonight: fat slices of homegrown heritage tomato
>>>> sprinkled with salt and drizzled with balsamic vinegar,
>>>> alongside garlic-rubbed toast made from my sourdough no-knead
>>>> bread. The plants are in tatters now. Farmers have the hardest
>>>> job."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> this can be summarized in 3 words: first world problems
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2017/...cooking-email/
>>>> in dex.html?emc=edit_ck_20170726&nl=cooking&nlid=8059 1572>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have enough trouble managing my life in our US "first world
>>> contry", than I have time for thinking abought what goes on in
>>> third world countries. There are reasons those populations are
>>> there and not here, nor do I wish to have them here. Go ahead
>>> and think I'm selfish and insensitive. I don't really care what
>>> you think.
>>
>> how did you manage to get so much sand in your vagina?
>>
>>
>
> Watch your mouth, tert!
>
> I'm not a racist by any stretch of he imaginaton. However, it's
> interesting to note that in the deep south the black population is
> hugely self-segregated. The same for the white population as well.
> They may work together, but most do not live in the same
> neighborhoods, nor socialize together.
>
> The same is often true in other parts of the US where there are
> clusters of various ethnic groups who not mingle with the other
> groups.
>
> Just because it can be done, doesn't not necessarily mean that is
> done, or should be done.

I saw that when I worked at the schools too, where I am there is a large
poplulation of Hispanics, and always at lunch time all the ethnic groups
pretty much self-segregated into their own groups while eating.

Cheri