you should maybe like _read_ the post before you flame the sender.
bob
> 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?
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> >
> >
> > > -----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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