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To: dsc

What is your point?

I was correcting your statement so you do not appear ignorant of the facts.


36 posted on 02/10/2009 7:15:44 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Unassuaged

“I was correcting your statement so you do not appear ignorant of the facts.”

There’s no point in allowing this to escalate.

I am aware that there was slavery in the world prior to 1619. Europeans held other Europeans in slavery, American Indians practiced slavery. The Arabs had (have) been practicing black slavery since antiquity.

However, the mantra of “four hundred years of bondage” has no applicability to black slavery in the region that is now the United States, and I’m getting pretty tired of hearing it.


59 posted on 02/10/2009 7:54:05 AM PST by dsc (A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.)
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