Jislaaik - en ek dog dit is 'n grap toe ek lees van die sewe dwergies -
skuus mans- en sneeuwitjie:)))
Annette
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"bolander" skryf in boodskap news:4016C8B7.7000107@miami.net...
> KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Southwest Airlines flight attendant's variation on
> a rhyme with a racist history did not discriminate against two black
> passengers, a federal jury decided.
>
> The U.S. District Court jury of seven white men and one white woman
> deliberated less than an hour Wednesday before reaching its verdict.
>
> Grace Fuller, 49, and her sister Louise Sawyer, 46, both of suburban
> Kansas City, filed the suit over comments flight attendant Jennifer
> Cundiff made after they boarded a Southwest flight to return from a Las
> Vegas vacation three years ago next month.
>
> As the two were trying to find seats on the crowded plane, Cundiff said
> over the intercom, "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go."
>
> Sawyer and Fuller said the rhyme immediately struck them as a reference
> to an older, racist version in which the first line is followed by the
> words "catch a n----r by the toe." They testified at the two-day trial
> that they were embarrassed, humiliated and frustrated. Fuller said she
> suffered a small seizure on the flight home, which said was triggered by
> the remark.
> Later at home, she said she had a grand mal seizure and was bedridden
> for three days.
>
> Cundiff, 25, of Argyle, Texas, testified that she had never heard the
> racist version and that she was only trying to inject humor to make the
> flight more enjoyable and memorable. She wanted passengers to take their
> seats so the plane could leave.
>
> Cundiff, who had been a flight attendant for eight months at the time,
> said she had used the rhyme before on other flights. She said that it
> was not until she showed her mother the letters complaining about what
> she said that she learned about the racist version of the rhyme.
>
> Fuller said after the verdict that there was enough evidence for jurors
> to have found she had her sister had been discriminated against.
>
> "If we had jurors of our peers then we would have won the case today,
> and we should have won the case today, with all the evidence shown," she
> said.
>
> "It's a shame that the jury pool we had to draw from did not have one
> black and not one minority," she said. "Something has to be done to make
> sure there is justice in America for blacks."
>
> Fuller and her sister testified that they first wrote to Southwest
> complaining that they felt the rhyme was racially offensive, asking that
> flight attendants stop using it. They said they decided to sue because
> they felt the airline did not take their complaints seriously.
>
> The lawsuit accused Southwest of violating a 1981 civil rights law that
> prevents businesses from discriminating against minority customers by
> treating them differently from white customers for the same service.
>
> Scott A. Wissel, appointed to represent the women after they filed a
> handwritten complaint, declined comment about the verdict. In his
> closing argument he said Cundiff's use of the rhyme was tantamount to a
> racial slur.
>
> John W. Cowden, who represented Southwest Airlines, said he and his
> client were pleased with the verdict.
>
> "All along, Southwest Airlines has contended that it did not
> intentionally discriminate against the two ladies," he said. "We are
> pleased the jury agreed and vindicated Southwest and its flight
> attendant, Jennifer Cundiff."
>
> In his closing argument, Cowden characterized Cundiff's remarks as an
> innocent attempt at humor.
>
> "At best, this is an argument that something is not politically
> correct," Cowden told jurors. "At worst, it is nothing. Certainly, this
> does not support a violation of a federal statute, because these words
> were spoken."
>
> Cundiff said she was relieved and thought the verdict was fair and just.
> She maintained that the rhyme had been directed at several passengers,
> not just Sawyer and Fuller.
>
> "When I first heard they complained about what I said, I didn't know
> what they were talking about," she said.
>
> While Cundiff said she probably would never use the rhyme again, "I will
> not tell anyone not to say it."
>
Ps. 65"tot U moet alle vlees kom, o God - U versoen
ons met u droom. met kragtige dade voldoen
U in veel meer as verwagtinge; U versadig
ons met gedagtes wat vir U begerenswaardig
is. U reik oor seë na volke in afgeleë lande;
U berei woestyne tot weivelde met hul hande.
in oorvloed klee U die dale met kleinvee en katoen;
die berge sing met 'n geilte pampoen en waatlemoen."
Het Belgisch Instituut voor Post en
Telecommunicatie (BIPT) waarschuwt voor
een gevaarlijk computervirus onder de
naam Mydoom, Novarg, Shimg of Mimail.
In 24 uur tijd heeft de worm Mydoom al
meer dan 300.000 computers, vooral in
de VS, besmet.
Volgens producenten van antivirussoft-
ware gaat het om een bijzonder
gevaarlijk virus. De worm verspreidt
zich razendsnel via e-mail.
Op 1 februari zou de worm een
zogenoemde aanval uitvoeren op een
website, zegt het BIPT nog. Meer
informatie is te vinden op de
gespecialiseerde site van het BIPT.
Wonder waar in die wye wêreld hierdie sielietjie sit dat hy nie eers weet
hoe ons verkiesing werk nie..
--
Annette
"Dean Vermaak" skryf in boodskap news:KC0ZXJAL38012.8027777778@anonymous.poster...
> I believ that the following scenario is a likely outcome of the
> 2004 elections:
>
> Winnie (Queen of all Africa) Mandela will stand for election,
> targeting the grassroots followers - disenchanted by the blatant
> failure of the other party to deliver on the previous election
> promises.
>
> She will win because:
>
> - She is popular with the people of SAfrica
> - Understands the struggle and can shift this drive to the new
> challenges
> - She is a strong leader who won't buckly under pressure
> - She is the mother of the nation.
>
> Dean Vermaak
>
Die enigste een wat tog daaroor kan besluit is die een wat die fetus dra -
Maar nog al die jare is dit die manne ( politici en dominees) wat heftig
daarteen skop - in die openbaar.
Hulle is ook natuurlik die eerstes as hul liewe telge 'n meisie in die
moeilikheid het geld agteraf in die hand stop vir 'n aborsie.
Daar word gepraat van aborsie as moord - maar wat van as die kind daar is en
dit verhonger, word verwaarloos of mishandel? Ons welsynsdienste kan tog nie
vir almal sorg nie.
'n Fetus van minder as 12 weke is tog nog nie 'n mens nie, so hoe kan dit
moord wees?
Anderkant Wellington op pad na Ceres kry mens twee keer namekaar dieselfde
verkeersborde aan jou kant - 'n driehoek met 'n rooi rand, uitroepteken bo
en onder dit is geskryf:
Skouers
Shoulders.
Daar is egter geen skouers op die pad nie.
Toe vra ek vir Ian om vir te help uitkyk vir die gevaarlike skouers.
Saterdag, op pad na Ceres, net voor Michel'spas is daar 'n plek met 'n groot
rooi kruis en stopteken langs die pad by 'n treinspoor. Ek stop toe ewe
gehoorsaam daar omdat ek moet - maar ek merk dat verkeer van voor af en die
persoon voor my nie eers stadiger ry nie - hulle ry oor die
stoptekensperstreep asof dit nie bestaan nie.
My niggie vertel my toe dat mens daar versigtig moet wees en in jou
truspieëltjie moet kyk voordat jy daaraan dink om daar te stop, want as
daar 'n motor of vragmotor van agter aankom, gaan hulle verseker in jou
vasry as jy sou stop.
--
Annette
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