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To: DuncanWaring
"It was also illegal to teach slaves to read in some states.

While it is unfair to tag someone for the actsof their ancestors, Obama has triedto ride his African ancestry as a legitimizing fact in his pursuit of power. If he wants to ride on the backs of his forebears, he needs to fessup and say something about his ancestors (the Luo tribe) and their slave-trading practices.

51 posted on 09/15/2009 7:28:19 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: cookcounty

Ironic that many descendants of slaves would put their unconditional faith in such a man.


61 posted on 09/15/2009 7:42:59 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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