> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob MacKillop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:48 AM
> To: scots-l
> Subject: [scots-l] Was Burns a racist?
>
>
> I must have got out of the wrong side of bed this morning...
>
> Was Burns a racist? Just before his Kilmarnock edition came out -
> his first
> collection of poems - he hoped that the money from it would be enough to
> start a new life in Jamaica as a 'Negro-driver', a slave owner. Was it a
> case of, 'A man's a man for a that - exept negroes'? Did he
my dad tells me that the man who's a man is a freemason.
that is, a mason has no social rank. dukes and knights and the lowest
apprentice or beggar are all "brother" in the lodge. it doesn't apply to
"others", or to women either, for that matter.
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