Muppets (was Re: BK on Identity)

[kelley]

At 10:41 AM 3/7/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>At 09:10 AM 3/7/01 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>Kelley says:
>>>
>>>>>CB: If you can find some like minded people locally,  thinking about 
>>>>>it together might help with the problem, and might make the 
>>>>>frustration more bearable. However,  I don't know that I have special 
>>>>>skills in overcoming the brainwashing dished out by the monopoly 
>>>>>media/education system for about the last 20 years.
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the people you talk to saying as a response to what you say ?
>>>>
>>>>firstly, i encounter this on lists mainly.  the people i encounter, 
>>>>here, are black, mostly.  although that doesn't mean anything b/c my 
>>>>neighbor denies that there is any such things as driving while 
>>>>black.  secondly, lbo-talk is where i find like-minded people -- at 
>>>>least more lefty minded than most people around here.  i didn't think 
>>>>you had special skills per se, only that we often talk about racism and 
>>>>you mentioned educating people, so i was asking.  that's it.
>>>
>>>At 6:30 AM -0500 3/7/01, Michael Pollak wrote:
>>>>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 06:30:55 -0500 (EST)
>>>>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>>>>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>>>>Subject: Re: Horowitz/Reparations for slavery
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Daniel Davies wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Just for the record, I'm a muppet.
>>>>
>>>>That's the great thing about the internet.  Nobody can tell.
>>>>
>>>>Michael
>>>
>>>Yoshie
>>
>>yoshie, could you explain what you're talking about?
>
>I treat nameless characters in anecdotes exchanged on e-lists as 
>"muppets."  I'm not against muppets, however, if they are used well.
>
>Yoshie

i fail to understand what it has to do with what i typed?

kelley