From: "Bill" <koran@cchat.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:51:19 -0500 Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:55:45 -0500 Subject: Re: Abduction of Blacks? [The Finalists] >From: Greg Sandow <gsandow@prodigy.net> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> >Subject: RE: UFO UpDate: Re: Abduction of Blacks? [The Finalists] >Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:18:15 -0500 >>Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:21:18 +0000 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> >>From: John Rimmer <magonia@magonia.demon.co.uk> >>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Abduction of Blacks? [The Finalists] >>>From: Paul Williams <paulw@escape.com> >>>Barney Hill, husband to Betty Hill, their story was distilled >>>into a book and movie, called Interupted Journey, Barney was a >>>blackman. >>OK, so that's one very easy answer, we're impressed. But as the >>population of the USA is - what? - 20 percent of Afro-American >>lineage there must be hundreds more, so can we have a lot more >>names please. Of course, if you can't come up with many more it >>might suggest that the abduction experience has a - gulp! - >>strong *psychosocial* element. Or is it just that the Greys >>aren't equal opportunity abductors? > >>-- John Rimmer Magonia On-Line, >Or, sigh, that African-Americans don't report abductions -- a >point that's already been made in a couple of posts. I remember the subject from a number of other threads over the last few years. I even remember the resulting equation. This is where, if A is true (an assumption with no evidence), and A equals B (where B has no apparent relationship to A), then C (a complete unknown) equals A (a mutually exclusive, completely unsubstantiated, psychosocial cause of abduction)...right? >In New York, very few African-Americans go to professional >sports events, even though there's no doubt they're fans. When I >wrote a piece some years ago about African-Americans in >classical music, I was told that very few African-Americans who >love classical music ever go to classical concerts. They don't >feel welcome in prestigious concert halls. The same is true for any power(less) segment of society. How many obviously battered women failed to report domestic abuse for fear of retribution until there was a concerted effort to get them to report...and how many instances continue to go unreported? Who knows? Lots? >In any case, the psychosocial presumption conceals another one, >which we shouldn't feel we're in any position to make -- that, >assuming abductions were real, as many blacks would get abducted >as whites. How can we assume such a thing? How can we assume >that aliens, about whom we know nothing, would abduct all types >of humans equally? >Here's a more productive approach to the initial question, >about who allegedly gets abducted. When abductees report seeing >other abductees on the alien UFOs -- sometimes in huge numbers >-- what proportion of blacks do they see? And does this answer >vary, depending on the race of the abductee reporting it? This is a very interesting and useful suggestion, and a good a place to start for anyone who is seriously arguing for a psychosocial cause, (or even anyone interested in knowing the truth of the abduction phenom), to begin with. I'm looking forward to your usual, intellectually honest job of carrying on _both_ sides of this seemingly endless debate...again. Sincerely, Bill
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