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From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 98 13:13:03 PST
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:36:24 -0500
Subject: Re: Abduction of Blacks? [The Finalists]


>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 09:43:19 +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: 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>


>Well, yes, maybe the aliens are only abducting white people.
>Shouldn't the abductionists now be looking at this issue and
>trying to discover the reason - it would seem a pretty vital
>factor in abduction research. At least the psychosocial brigade
>have got a suggestion to make - that abductions are a culturally
>related phenomenon which is more a part of Anglo-Saxon and
>Eurocentric culture than it is Afro-American. And despite the
>sneers elsewhere on this list (Jerry, I mean you) I still refuse
>to believe that there is *no* connection whatsoever between the
>current abduction panic in the USA and concern over "alien"
>immigration.

It is indeed touching, John, that you "refuse to believe there
is _no_ connection whatsoever between the current abduction
panic [sic] in the USA and concern over `alien' immigration."  I
suppose it's much easier to make sweeping statements about what
Americans think when you don't live here, as you don't.

I'd sure like to know, for example, where you get the idea that
there is a "panic" about abductions in my country.  As a
lifelong citizen, I can testify that the subject virtually never
comes up in my daily interactions with other Americans, even
those who know of my interest in UFOs.  Some panic.  It's this
sort of loose and careless use of language that years ago drove
me from advocacy of psychosocial hypotheses.

In any event, unless you can produce clear and specific evidence
(or even, for that matter, merely intriguing and suggestive
evidence) that Americans everywhere deeply fear Hispanic
immigration and therefore suffer vivid fantasies about abduction
by decidedly non-Hispanic extraterrestrials, it simply does not
matter what you believe or refuse to believe.

Jerry Clark