From: Greef, Susan [sgreef@ebmud.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 4:02 PM
To: 'chymes@ix.netcom.com'
Subject: here's a hoax that is not on your page

hello,

i just visited your page and enjoyed it.  i went there looking for
documentation about this story that i know to be a hoax, but cannot find
information about it.

if you would like, here is the text of it.  like most of them, its come
my way any number of times over the past year or so:

thanks for your page.

susan

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>> >I'm sure some of you watched the recent taping of the Oprah Winfrey
show
>>  >>>where her guest was Tommy Hilfiger. On the show, she asked  him
if the
>>  >
>>  >>>statements about race he was accused of saying were true.
>>  >>>Statements like:"...if I'd known African-Americans, Hispanics,
jewis
>>  >>>and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so
nice.
>>  >>>I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made
for
>>  >>>upper class white people."  His answer to Oprah was a simple
"YES".
>>  >>>Where upon she immediately asked him to leave her show.
>>  >>>My suggestion?
>>  >>>Let's give him what he's asked for. Let's not buy his clothes!
let's
>>  >>>put him in a financial state where he himself will not be able to
>>  >>>afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.
>>  >>>
>>  >>>BOYCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE
>SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO SPENDS THEIR  HARD EARNED
MONEY ON
>CLOTHES MADE BY SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT THEM AS A PERSON OR A
PEOPLE!
>
>