>Perhaps we should hire President Trump to build a wall for us.
I seem to recall some guy named Hadrian attempted the barrier
solution
a few years back.
>>> Parts of it are still there and Nicola Sturgeon (if you have heard
about her) is trying to get it repaired this time to keep the English
out of Scotland rather than the other way around.
But I for one would donate money if you would hire
Donald Trump to build a wall, just as long as you keep him busy and
keep him over there.
RA
>>>I don't think even he could achieve that - and I don't think he
would get Africa to pay for it either. He seems to have gone a bit
quiet on that one but perhaps that's just the calm before the storm.
As Pope Francis (bless him) said - we should be building bridges, not
walls.
Monica
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Date: 28/05/2017 0:08
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> On May 27, 2017, at 6:37 AM, mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
>
> there were a lot of Africans in Spain during
> the 16th and 18th centuries. North African is just a short
distance
> across the Mediterranean from Spain.
Tangier is, but itâs 3,300 kilometers from Gibraltar to Dakar and
4,500
kilometers to Sierra Leone. Is the cumbee a Moorish dance?
- That is a good question. Spain held territories in North Africa
and
Spain and Portugal navigated down the west coast of Africa long
before
they reached the New World. Vasco da Gama sailed to India round the
southern tip of Africa etc. at the same time that Columbus
discovered
the West Indies. So the idea that any African dances must have come
from Mexico doesn't really hold water. I think the received wisdom
is
that the cumbees, paracumbe and guinea and a few others all came
from
Guinea or that part of Africa rather than from north of the Sahara.
Distance is not really a factor - it was Aristotle I believe -
correct
me if I am wrong - who said "We Greeks live like frogs around a
pond".
The Mediterranean is not much of a barrier - refugees are flooding
from
Africa into Europe in boatloads by that route today. Perhaps we
should
hire President Trump to build a wall for us. A suspension bridge
might
be a better idea - fewer people would drown. The Roman Empire
encompassed a lot of North Africa and Spain was invaded by people
from
North Africa long before the Moors arrived and some of them must
have
been ethnically African.
- So take your pick.
Monica
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