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From: polysci20@aol.com
Date: 1/18/01
Time: 10:48:20 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.97.6
Hi everyone. I'm JP, a senior with a political science major working on a minor in journalism. I am currently interned at the New Jersey Reporter, which, guess what, deals with politics and as you can probably note from my e-mail address, I am obsessed with the subject.
Well, I just got through reading some of the other e-mails and I found one, in particular, in which one of the students, reading through the paper, noted that there was a story about a dog that was stomped to death, and he candidly noted that he thought that the perpetrator was a white. I am curious as to whether the writer of that letter is white or one of the several minorities because I, too, have, on occassion found myself of imagining people according to color and it has made me stop to think that, if we associate with our skin color because of familiarity. Say, for instance, the writer thought of the dog. Was it the case that, if the writer is white, he or she believed dogs are associated with family and so, was something familiar and that therefore the person must have been white?