RE: Free enterprise

["Lucy Zoe" <lucyzoe@moscow.com>]

Rosemary wrote:

The Civil Rights Movement shaped the perspective on human rights for
most 
people of my generation.  Some of us chose then (and choose now) to
stand 
beside those people who, with enormous courage and dignity, risk their
lives 
to confront and overcome oppression.  Others chose then (and choose now)
to 
defend and perpetuate the culture of oppression via spurious claims of 
property rights, white supremacy, romanticized and historically
inaccurate 
views of the old South, chauvinism, and garden variety cultural
ignorance.  


	Are you saying that invoking your rights as a property owner
	is racist and it perpetuates oppression? So, if I come home
	and someone is sitting on my couch, and I ask them to leave,
	I'm racist and oppressive?

	And in your diner, you'd have no problem with a knight of the
	Klan, sitting center table, dressed in a full size sheet with
holes?
	That's acceptable to you, even if it has an effect on the other
	diners? Forget the knight, just bring in a topless woman.
	I suppose you'd let her stay and eat all the way through
dessert?

	Where do you draw the line Rosemary? And I'm not talking about
	Lesbians holding hands, so don't go there. I'm asking you how
	a property owner can exercise his/her ownership without being
	labeled a racist and an oppressor? Who gets to draw the line?

	Lucy Zoe