In article <40aad1c4$1@news.povray.org>, "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj;-
)565### [at] aolcom> says...
> Thanks. I tried those textures and they seemed to work well.
> Any gossip on why Poser dropped the ethnic characters?
> 
Reverse discrimination and the existence of a small number of people that 
still insist they are repressed? Just a guess of course, but something I 
read recently suggests that we have traded racial prejudice for a much 
more powerful fear that any tiny little mistake we make could be racist, 
even when it is a) unintended, b) meant it jest or c) used by the same 
skinned communities current generation as a sign of affection. Think 
Jackie Chan's line in Rush Hour, "What's up my niger!", when it gets him 
attacked, but was OK for his partner.

Basically someone probably complained, so rather than buck the trend and 
telling the complainers to shut up and stop spreading fear and reverse 
prejudice, then just buckled like everyone else. I'll bet on it. Give it 
another 50 years of the new generations of people bucking the trend the 
kids of that time will wonder what the heck the problem even was. 
Assuming the fear and paranoia doesn't cause the current generations to 
explode first.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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