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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:48:57 GMT
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jsproat@io.+antispam+com
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Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
> "Moz (Chris Moseley)" wrote:
> > Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote
> > > It's funny how, when the topic of state executions comes up, so does the
> > > word "black".
> > I would not descibe it as "funny", myself.
> > But then I live in a country where genocide is legal. Not just legal, in fact,
> > but government policy. Sorry, I meant "not current government policy, but
> > definitely a policy of the past which we see no need to apologise for".
> Please, people, maybe I don't catch this stuff, but paraphrasing and hinting on
> a subject where some people have no clue, I think you better state, clearly,
> what you are talking about. Man, it is like trying to dissect what Bill Clinton
> is lying about, he always does it, you can't seem to figure out what he is
> saying, either.
I can explain it for you, once we all agree upon the definition of "for".
:-P
It's a scary statistic that there are more, ahh, minorities on death row in
the U.S. than there are, ahh, majorities. I'm hinting at the various social
and economic and regional situations which may or may not have eventually
sent these people to be executed.
(I believe) Chris is alluding to the "cultural cleansing" of the Aboriginal
people by the colonial settlers of Australia, driven by a mindset which is
all too often reveled in even today. It happens pretty much the same way
here in the States, and at quite a few other places as well.
I lived at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for most
of my life, and I personally witnessed the American policy of corrupting and
destroying an indeginious culture for their own purposes.
> “The more people I meet, the more I like my Lego collection.”
Good quote.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
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