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To: Dan Evans; Southack
Maybe it depends on what freedoms you hold dear.


Damn, man! What's your malfunction? What I hold dear?

Look it, my grandfathers were saddled with gun laws that forbade black people from owning any firearm. Where they could go was restricted. Their manner of speech was controlled. You take a 50 year old black man who had to address a 10 year old white kid as "sir" or "ma'am" while they can turn right around and call this man "boy."

I could go on and on, but it would be lost on you.

My goodness!


Real men don't whine.

171 posted on 01/26/2005 12:56:27 PM PST by rdb3 (The wife asked how I slept last night. I said, "How do I know? I was asleep!")
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To: rdb3
"I could go on and on, but it would be lost on you."

Indeed. He's donned such mental blinders that he sees no expansions of freedom (Voting Rights Act, anyone?!), only perceived losses of liberty (apparently we "serfs" are forbidden from taking explosives and firearms onto public transport, Oh My!).

174 posted on 01/26/2005 1:00:49 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: rdb3
Look it, my grandfathers were saddled with gun laws that forbade black people from owning any firearm.

Things aren't much better. Even when the KKK was lynching blacks, they only hung a few hundred of them total. Today that's the typical summer crime carnage in Washington DC. And of course today in a lot of big cities most people are not allowed to carry weapons, only the criminals carry weapons and people are not nearly as free to walk at night as they were in 1950.

You take a 50 year old black man who had to address a 10 year old white kid as "sir" or "ma'am" while they can turn right around and call this man "boy."

And today in New York City, the white residents have learned never to make eye contact with black men in the subway. But are the blacks better off now?

192 posted on 01/26/2005 2:08:47 PM PST by Dan Evans
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