Posted on 01/30/2002 1:30:56 AM PST by TopQuark
Your wife may have been the one homeschooling your children...but I can assure you, your presence and support in all their lives leaves a huge mark. :o)
Homeschool Dad bump!
Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Haley, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Haley intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”
It is just a coincidence that out of 7 million slaves, 7 million of them were black.
No coincidence at all. Blacks came from Africa. African Blacks had no technology, an automonous tribal structure and an intertribal warfare ecomony lacking any possibilities of union against a common threat, and dealt in slaves in and among themselves.
Were you educated in the public schools after after 1970? 
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