He was just joking. Don't take it very hard.
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> From: Salome Gebre-Egziabher <sge@UMICH.EDU>
> To: ERMIAS ALEM <ermias@HOTMAIL.COM>
> Cc: dehai@primenet.com
> Subject: Re: [DEHAI] jokes about eritrean girls :)
> Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 2:10 PM
>
>
> * Dehai Retreat '97 in Eritrea: contact pnatnael@nodc.noaa.gov
*
> * Win a round trip ticket to Eritrea for a $10 raffle and help Eritrean
*
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>
>
>
> Dear Ermias,
>
> I find the jokes you sent about Eritrean girls/women and women in
> general VERY, VERY, VERY, OFFENSIVE AND TASTELESS. Please know we have
> brains and we use them too. Be sensitive and shade of your stereotypes
of
> girls/women. Remember it was Ada Lovelace's work on how a machine could
> be used to perform mathematical operations that helped Charles Babbage
> build the first computer. Given on how schools and college curriculua
> are youmay not have known about this. FRom the great minds of women
great
> things have been created.
>
>
> Selam and ridette to all of us.
>
> Salome Gebre-Egziabher
>
>
> On Fri, 2 May 1997, ERMIAS ALEM wrote:
>
> >
> > * Dehai Retreat '97 in Eritrea: contact pnatnael@nodc.noaa.gov
*
> > * Win a round trip ticket to Eritrea for a $10 raffle and help
Eritrean *
> > * War Vetrans get a computer: contact yonasa@ibm.net
*
> >
> >
> > Selam all,
> >
> > Q: How do you confuse an eritrean girl?
> > A: You can't. They are born this way.
> >
> > Q: Why can't girls call 911?
> > A: They can't find the "11" button.
> >
> > Q: How do you know when a girl has used her computer?
> > A: There is a white-out all over the screen.
> >
> >
> > Hey, no offense, just jokes :))
> >
> > EA
> >
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