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To: hotshu; UpAllNight
'scuse me for not being PC. Facts are facts. Truth is Truth.

I think UpAllNight's point was that if you supporttobacco because it was part of the bedrock of America's early economy, then you have to support slavery for the exact same reason.

160 posted on 01/20/2007 5:54:27 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker; hotshu

--I think UpAllNight's point was that if you supporttobacco because it was part of the bedrock of America's early economy, then you have to support slavery for the exact same reason.--

I wasn't going that far.


171 posted on 01/20/2007 6:01:22 PM PST by UpAllNight
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