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To: Will88
The MSM loves a story that suggests those of European ancestry are not a pure race

Well, I wish more of the people "of color" would recognize that. There were virulent animosities and takeovers and enslavements among many races of peoples with white skin. They are not the only ones.

Whenever I hear people dissing English as the official language of the U.S., I groan. The English oppressed the Scots, Irish and Welsh for centuries; and English is not the racially original language of most of the "white" people in the U.S. But we need a common language so as to not end up constantly fighting like Quebec. English is as good as any. Fewer tenses than Latin-based languages; fewer weird diacritical marks.

54 posted on 08/22/2012 9:36:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: Albion Wilde
English is not the racially original language of most of the "white" people in the U.S.

But it is the original language of the white people who originally settled the USA and founded the original 13 colonies, and then wrote the Declaration of Independence, fought the Revolutionary War and wrote the Articles of Confederation and then the US Constitution.

No point in pretending that the heritage of the USA is not overwhelmingly English. The white folks were 90% English during the revolution.

58 posted on 08/22/2012 9:49:37 AM PDT by Will88
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