Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 16:25:27 -0400

From: Martha Howard UN106005[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU

Subject: racist terms



My mother and grandmother referred to my great grandmother, who was a

bitch on wheels (lived to be 102 and outlived three husbands, all of whom

died--my father claimed--to escape her) as the "meanest white woman that

ever lived" Racist? Why "white". I never thought to ask although I have

always wondered and now there's no one but youall to ask. Please give me

your thoughts. Incidentally, we all are white.