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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.misc
Subject: Re: Ah !  The Good Old Times
Message-ID: <1429@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 03:58:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 03:58:20 1985
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Summary: 

In article <305@ihlpa.UUCP> zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes:
>> All this discussion/argument/flame throwing about AA/discrimination ....
>> reminds me ... (of) a plaque I found in Atlanta recently and (which) now
>> adorns my office. Here it goes :
>> 
>> ***************************************
>> 
>> When the white man discovered this country
>> Indians were running it
>> No taxes or debt
>> Women did all the work
>> WHITE MAN THOUGHT HE COULD IMPROVE ON A SYSTEM LIKE THAT
>> 
>> ***************************************
>> See what happens when you try to fix something that's working.
>> Happy thinking !
>> 
>> sanjay
>> --
>> Full-Name:  Sanjay Tikku
>
>
>If some descendant of the indians the early settlers dealt with still
>has his reciept of purchase and $24.00 than I believe a refund can be 
>arranged.
>
>jeanette l. zobjeck
>ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie

Sorry, but this was one of the earliest cases of a tourist visiting
New York being sold a bill of goods.  According to something I read
back in the early '70s, (the original Lost Reference) the Indians
who met with the greedy Dutchmen didn't live there, they were visiting.
The sale was completely invalid, but the Dutch were pushy enough, and
the real tenants were laid-back enough, that the filthy white-eye
Europeans got their foothold, and now the whole area has gone so far
downhill that they have to truck food in to feed the inhabitants.

Sort of analagous to a real estate developer visiting France, and
buying that nice island across the channel for five Sony Walkman
stereos and a Michael Jackson tape.

Hutch