----- Original Message ----- From: "ritu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:06 AM Subject: RE: SCOUTED: Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease Found in New York Senator
Ronn!Blankenship forwarded:
> ST. LOUIS Jan. 6 � Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for > joking that > Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying > it was "a > lame attempt at humor." > > The director of a U.S. center devoted to Gandhi's teachings said the > remarks amounted to stereotyping and were insensitive.
There are just two ways for this to make sense:
A] Gujjus run a lot of gas stations in the US....? Is that true?
B] People think of Gandhi as a gujju first and an Indian second...? This seems kind of unbelievable to me but then I am sitting many a continents away.....
Ritu, who had to read the article through twice and then think for 2 minutes before guessing what might have caused offense....
************************************************************** Americans are overly sensitive to insensitivity.
If, frex, Elizabeth Dole or Ann Coulter had said the same thing . . . ?
-- Ronn! :)
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