kumar@hplabsc.UUCP (02/23/85)
The following news item is quite old, but will be of interest to people of Indian origin. It reveals the mindset of someone who may be getting rich with your beer money. If you know of another newsgroup where this will be of interest, feel free to post it there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- COORS CALLS BLACKS 'INTELLECTUAL' INFERIORS Reprinted courtesy of Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO By Thomas Schilling Denver, CO - Speaking to a group of minority business owners on February 23, 1984, William K. Coors said "Blacks lack intellectual capacity" and that "one of the best things they (slave traders) did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." The outspoken chairman and chief executive officer of the Adolph Coors Company said if American Blacks visited the African countries from which their ancestors were taken by slave traders, they would be glad they were living in a country with a free-enterprise system, "a land of opportunity." Coors' remarks were greeted by a few nervous laughs from the crowd of 110 minority business owners, including a number of Blacks, attending a seminar sponsored by the minority Business Development Center. In his rambling speech, Coors attributed the economic problems in Black- governed Africa to "a lack of intellectual capacity." As an example, Coors discussed the former British colony of Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe. Until 1980, a white minority government was in charge. Blacks now rule. "In Rhodesia, the economy was booming under white management," Coors said. "Now in Zimbabwe, under Black management, it is a disaster." Coors said he had discussed the matter with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. "It's not that the dedication among Blacks is less; in fact it's greater," said Coors. "They lack the intellectual capacity to succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes."