Originally Posted by: kingdavidWTF?!@?#?#$ :eek:
Shouldn't that be illegal or something? Fine, you (not you,Rask) want to be a racist asshole, go right ahead. But a school (schools are formed on the basis of some law or other, right?)??? WTF is that?[/quote]
That is what happens when the Liberal "enlightened" North turns its back on the "red states" because it needs somebody to blame when the Democrats pick a boring, droning stick in the mud for their Presidential nominee and they (SURPRISE!) lose the election.

Originally Posted by: kingdavidThat's the part people don't get. It's a bit lame to say my great great grandfather worked for Ma Bell for free, so Sprint(it's a baby ball,right?) should pay me a whoopass bag full of green backs.
Lame ass. Go and find a job!![/QUOTE]
See, I think this is just it... as long as we have two standards -- one for those who go out and earn their living and another for those who milk the system, it's never going to improve. And sadly, the more education and families break down, the more people choose for that second standard to be applied to them.

Originally Posted by: scarface84

Originally Posted by: PRSplayaI can't understand why we're the ones that get blamed for slavery, when their own people are the ones who sold them. :confused:

Eh, maybe because you brought them to "the new land" from africa and forced them to work for nada. :rolleyes:

Arabs, England, Spain and France were just as involved with the slave trade as the American colonies; not only in carrying it out (in fact, the very seeds of the Royal Navy were sewn to force open Spanish markets in the New World to English merchants), but also for their very lucrative plantation colonies in the West Indies and South America.



[QUOTE=scarface84][QUOTE=bigbuda]Slavery is long over with yet black people are quick to bring it up. Yeah, slavery was bad but I think indians were treated much worse and yet you never hear about them. Huh, ain't that strange?

I think that's because indians were pretty much wiped out, not many left to complain huh? Maybe it's not mentioned in the US much but in europe, atleast where i live everyone calls it a genocide.

First off, I'm part Abenaki and I think it's stupid to drag responsibility for injustices carried out hundreds of years ago onto people living today -- many of whom like me also share Indian blood.

Second, for quite some time, that genocide was carried out in name of King and country -- for England, for France, for Spain and for every other colonial power; just as much of the profits for this were shipped back to Europe and the monarchs and investors who concocted these schemes in the first place.

Third, I can remember some very public protests in Europe when my nation has stepped in to stop genocide, both in the Balkans and in Iraq. So, tell me: Is genocide indeed a horrifying evil that must be opposed at all costs or is it "none of your business" if you are not directly involved with it?