I'll pass the sentiment along. :)
> Isaac,
> So sorry you went through that. What can I say, that was
> horrible.
> Slavery as an institution ended in the 1860's in the US,
> officially
> banned in the British North American colonies in the
> 1790's, and in
> the empire itself around 1825. Brazil did not end slavery
> until the
> 1880's. Sudan still allows for slavery as does several
> other
> countries. Periodically the local papers report on cases
> where a
> domestic slave is imported into an embassy here in the DC
> region and
> then manages to escape. The diplomat usually gets away
> without any
> consequences.
> larry
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:08:39 -0400, S. Isaac Dealey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > You mean stuff like beatings, lynchings and murders
>> > have
>> > not happened. So what do you call what happened to that
>> > gay student in Laramie Wyoming a couple of years ago,
>> > where he was tied to a barbed wire fencepost and
>> > beated until he died.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> To bring the subject home... I was talking with Tiff and
>> she told me
>> this would be okay to share. Shortly before I met her in
>> early 2001
>> she got an urgent phone call from an old girlfriend she
>> knew in
>> high-school saying she was in trouble and desperately
>> needed her help.
>> When she arrived at the bus station, her girlfriend's new
>> skin-head
>> boyfriend proceeded to beat her near to death with a lead
>> pipe. Why?
>> Because although the other girl was with him now and was
>> okay because
>> she was being straight, Tiff was still a professed
>> lesbian, so it was
>> okay to kill her. So as an individual I'm very aware of
>> the
>> opportunities I have to be injured or worse for being who
>> I am, and
>> very grateful that to date I haven't experienced it.
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