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Re: [RC] What's in a name? - Barbara McCrary

No one can make you feel like a second class citizen without your
permission.  If you refuse to feel like a second class citizen, no matter
what anyone else says, then you are NOT a second class citizen.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Morris" <bobmorris@xxxxxxxx>
To: "David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Heidi Smith'"
<heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [RC] What's in a name?


I am so sorry it discussion has reached this point <<<<It
makes a bunch of people feel like they're second-class
citizens in our
organization,>>>>

In life, you feel exactly what you are. A nomenclature does
not make the person.

Bob

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
LeBlanc
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:16 PM
To: 'Heidi Smith'
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] What's in a name?


Heidi Smith said:

One has to draw the line at some sort of performance
level.
That level will be easy for some, difficult for others,
and
unobtainable to some.

I'm saying we're drawing the line in a really silly place.
When you go
around drawing lines, it has other effects as you've so well
pointed out in
some of the discussions around various rules. We've got a
line between the
star-bellied Sneeches and the plain-bellied Sneeches, when
the bottom line
is that we're all a bunch of Sneeches. Either draw lines in
good places for
good reasons, or don't draw them. Not drawing lines can
often have benefits.

Heck, maybe if they lowered the
baskets a whole bunch and didn't allow other players
within
10 feet of me, I could play in the NBA, too!

ROTFL! That's certainly a funny image.

What is wrong with that?

It makes a bunch of people feel like they're second-class
citizens in our
organization, and I think that's a bad thing. It would be
one thing if we
drew the line(s) in places that really meant something. For
example, if we
said that riders with > 5000 miles were "Senior" (or some
term signifying
seniority and accomplishment) Endurance Riders, then I'd
support that.
Changing labels based on one ride isn't worth the side
effects.



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