On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Virreira, Victor wrote:

> 
> 
> >I would like to be counted as someone else who suspects that
> >there is a racial element to the story. The description of
> >feeling righteous while vandalizing someone's car made me
> >very uncomfortable.
> 
>      Well put -  Although I suspect the narrator meant no "harm"...
> 
> >The subtext of the story seemed to me to be one of "getting
> >even with a black person with a bad attitude". That, to me,
> >is a racial issue.
> 
> >/ Lars Poulsen
> 
>      -Victor Virreira
> 
While I won't defend the vandalization either, I wonder if you all would 
feel more comfortable if the black man in a caddy was replaced with a 
yuppie in a beemer or a bubba in a big ol 4x4? Would anyone rise to the 
defense of these much-maligned groups? 
But we're getting away from the point of this list, and the story, the 
narrator was reacting to someone dissing his VW because of what it was 
and I think we can all identify w/that.
nuff' said?

Clark L