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To: CobaltBlue
I don't keep count but if you'd like, I'll point them out as they are posted, in future.
Oh, come now. You must keep some kind of count, or you wouldn't have made such an accusation. it was directed at me, correct?
69 posted on 08/31/2006 9:50:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not directed to you, personally. And not saying that the stories aren't interesting. They fascinate me, even the chauvinistic "rah rah for our team, we rule, they drool!" ones.

Nothing human is alien to me.

For example, I finally caught the PBS Nova on challenges to the Clovis First school. Nobody (on that show) was positing anything more than that, if Europeans came here, they were explorers who left little or no genetic trace.

Why the fascination with the "Europeans came to America first!" theory? Especially since, even if they did come here, they didn't prevail, or even survive?

As you might recall, while most of my own ancestry is European, there's zero doubt that they didn't come here before, say, Jamestown, while my Native American ancestors came here maybe 15,000 years ago, survived, prevailed, and prospered.

Being told that "really, the White Man came here first" is something that irritates me.


70 posted on 08/31/2006 1:09:17 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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