A'm fain o th freemasons' staun fer democracie, egalitarianism, an honour.
An this thin fowk sais aboot freemasons bein racists is shite, th California
societie boasts huge nummers o Hispanics an Asians. Sae A'd jyne them gin
they'd hae me. Bit A'd be happier gin they wis mair open tae th
participation o women, even in their ain lodges.
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----- Original Message -----
From: jw&a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: RE: [scots-l] Was Burns a racist?
>
>
> > -----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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