On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Gruss wrote: > > Anyway, America was founded by whitemale and his housemaid wife - > religious puritans, right? - who eventually brought over slaves and so > began the systemic discrimination and therefore dehumanization of > other races.
Do you really suck at U.S. history that much? Religious puritans came to New England and never had a system of slavery. The South was populated mainly by British, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish immigrants who came for opportunity or were exiled to the colonies in political purges, and by Africans who were at first brought as laborers and then were pressed into slavery over time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States As for the "system of the father", I personally want all Americans have the opportunity to make good lives for themselves, provide for their families, and see their children do better than they did. That's what America is all about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
