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From: jay@cadre.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.music
Subject: Re: White greed
Message-ID: <314@cadre.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 01:18:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 01:18:32 1985
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Reply-To: jay@cadre.ARPA (Jay Ramanathan)
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh.
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Keywords: Slavery, poverty
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Summary: 

>>	White people are enjoying an inheritance that was STOLEN by
>>	300 years of slavery and 100 years of legal and social prejudice.
>>
>>    Until white people recognize that they are simply being asked to
>>    share their ill-gotten gains, there will be little room for intelligent
>>    debate about anything.
>
>This is a racist argument on its face:............ 
>.....One could easily argue that slavery held the economy back
>so that if there were no slaves the country would be far wealthier.
>All of the facts seem to point to slavery and the subsequent
>black poverty as a drain on national resources.  

Interesting line of thinking.  The "master" gets every last measure out
of his "slave", and then decides the "slave" should be paid ridiculously
low wages.  The "slave" thru generations is driven to poverty, and then
is blamed for being a "burden on the (master's?) national resources"!

There are still places where they starve donkeys (beasts of burden) until
one day they (the donkeys) collapse; then they (the donkeys) become
a burden on the master and are promptly disposed of.  Convenient, what?

Jay Ramanathan




"We are all equal"
"Well, some are *more* equal!"
                              --- Farm, Animal.
                                  (By Orwell, George)
                                 (Adapted *without* his permission)