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Re: Don't you just love injustices?

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From: Matthew Russotto
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:47
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In article <3D5C8F85.A8F504D5@nospam.com>,
Dianne Blackwell  <dianne75@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>We should take care of our black Americans before illegals.

"Our black Americans" aren't "ours".  They aren't children, or otherwise
dependents.  And they aren't, as they'd be the first to point out,
property.  They can take care of themselves.

>Thousands To Rally for Reparations 
>Apology Also Sought For Slave Descendents 
>
>By Manny Fernandez
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Friday, August 16, 2002; Page B01 
>
[...]
>
>"They owe us," said Lewis Andrews, a rally organizer, reciting the
>official theme of the Millions for Reparations rally. "We built this,
>but what do we get?"

We?  Maybe some of his ancestors helped build it; he didn't do shit.

>"We're talking about a crime against our person, a crime against
>humanity that has gone unpaid," said Andrews, 55, a minister with the
>Temple of the Black Messiah in Baltimore.

Paid in full, in blood, around 1865.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                mrussotto@speakeasy.net
===== 
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Every time you buy or rent a DVD, a programmer is kicked where it counts.
Every time they kick a programmer, 1000 users are kicked too, and harder.
A proposed US law called the CBDTPA would ban the PC as we know it. 
This is not a joke, not an exaggeration.  This is real.
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From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Don't you just love injustices?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:47:25 -0000
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