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Randy,
Oh, you mean "white trash rigging" (see how that feels?). Or maybe a jury
rig. The phrase is certainly a notch above bad taste, offensive to most;
whether it was not meant to be racial, this is 1998, let's live in the
culture we've got, not the past. And today, your phrase IS racial.
George Van Noy
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>Michael Harris wrote:
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>> TO: Randy Barlow
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>> Not being an Afro-American, I am unfamiliar with the term "Afro-American
>> rigging." If it is a racist expression, I would greatly appreciate your
>> keeping such language to yourself.
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>While the wording may have been in bad taste, it is not meant to be
>racial. It is, for us old timers, just a way of saying: Fixing
>something with a temporary means (i.e. tape, wire, etc), which will
>still require the correct fix in the future, instead of fixing it
>correctly and permantly now.
> Randy
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