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Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:13:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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Is the U.S. the land
of the free and the home of the brave, a land of opportunity? Yes, for the
most part.
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Even if one is black?
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You are such a troll! Why not ask Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan or any of
the other 1,000s of black millionaires your question.
Shesh.
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Tradition would say that Scott was being sarcastic, but maybe he wasn’t. Either
he honestly wanted my opinion, or perhaps it was rhetorical but he felt there
was a point to it. I already placed my qualifier (“for the most part”) but,
yes, my experience is that America is the home of the brave, etc, for blacks,
too. If he asked me 40 years ago, and I’d have another opinion, however.
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Hardly perfect (look how Bush got elected). Has it’s faults. But it
makes my short list of countries I’d be willing to live in. Consider that
my Irish ancestors voted with their feet on what they thought of Great
Britain. :-)
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They must have been the Schlickbernd’s of Dublin? ;)
Did they take part in the oppression of native Americans when they arrived?
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Ubertroll take off!
JOHN
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He was just teasing me for the German name - I have little doubt he guessed it
was my mother’s side of the family I was talking about. The German side is from
Westfalen.
-->Bruce<--
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