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To: LibertarianInExile

Don't forget Crispus Attucks.

Gotta have at least ONE brotha up in there!

;-)


114 posted on 03/10/2005 5:36:39 AM PST by Chef Dajuan
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To: Chef Dajuan

Naw, if we're putting a black man in solely on the basis of his race, that'd be a bad thing. Plus, I don't trust the stories about Attucks, since they seem to be primarily based on the work of William Nell, who was himself an activist trying to promote black freedom at the time, and not necessarily an unbiased source. Attucks might just have been at the wrong place at the wrong time. Any freedom fighter included has to be someone who's allied himself to the cause and deserves it on merit.

Now, that doesn't mean I won't take suggestions--I just don't know that Attucks fits the bill. It could well be a fictitious African, and ANY African, who meets the specs. In fact, fictitious is kind of hard to beat (which is why Uncle Sam and John Bull are the American and British reps). If the Poles and the Aussies had similar Joe Blow national counterparts, I'd put them instead of Kosciusko and Patterson.


181 posted on 03/10/2005 2:46:13 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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