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Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
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Date: 
Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:13:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:

   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   Is the U.S. the land of the free and the home of the brave, a land of opportunity? Yes, for the most part.

Even if one is black?

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.

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.

  
  
   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. :-)


They must have been the Schlickbernd’s of Dublin? ;)

Did they take part in the oppression of native Americans when they arrived?


Ubertroll take off!

JOHN


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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(...) 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. (...) Ubertroll take off! JOHN (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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