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Depends on where you went. In the south the discrimination was much more intense than the northern states. I know liberals like to blanket everything in generalities, but I won’t.


Ok then, let's just say everywhere there was a native population. And discrimination wasn't "intense" in the south, it was institutionalized. I suggest picking up a book on Jim Crow and doing some reading.


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Are you saying there are people who are being kept from an education by the government? That the “Equal Opportunity Employer” isn’t federal law?



I'm saying that it takes a pretty opaque set of rose-colored glasses to imagine that a kid growing up in Pacoima or Hawaiian Gardens, or on the Pine Ridge reservation is going to have as good a chance at a University education as a kid growing up in Chevy Chase. Guess which places have more brown people. Probably just a coincidence though.


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Again your expecting generalities, but the realities are much more complicated. Too complicated to work out all the reasons and factors in a couple of lines on a porn message board.



Dodge #1. After all the hot air you've been blowing, now you're afraid of long-winded explanations? You could easily boil it down to a few lines, but you're afraid to say what you really think. Grow a pair.


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I'm not sure why you have this problem with giving direct answers to direct questions. You can vote for anyone you want in the general election, regardless of party affiliation. So I'll ask again... did you vote for Barr, someone else, or not at all?


I don’t see why you have this problem adding 2 and 2. Yet somehow you always manage to fail.



Dodge #2. Ok, for whatever reason, you refuse to answer this one. I'm guessing you either A) voted for McCain, or more likely B) didn't vote at all.


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Problem is people never lost their rights, they just gradually gained them over time until the modern era.



They didn't huh? Too bad you can't tell that to all those Natives, who were rounded up and herded onto reservations... or the Sioux who lost the Black Hills. Maybe they'd even tell you about the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. It's an eye-opener. You also can't tell that to all those African kids who were chained up and stacked like cordwood in the holds of slave ships. They probably felt like they lost a few rights. And it also might interest you to know that the first African immigrants came to Virginia as indentured servants, and were not only freed but became property holders. After 1705 they probably felt like they lost a few rights too. I'm sure you coulda set them straight though.


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No. I would want my children to live for themselves, their own children, and to not be consumed by my fights.



That's very magnanimous of you. You must think all those Jewish familys sueing to recover their family fortunes from the German govt are awfully petty.


At any rate, this shit is starting to turn into an ADT thread, and I'm getting "h2c fatigue" [ not unlike the exhaustion that accompanies slamming one's forehead repeatedly against a brick wall ]. I'm giving you the last word, so make it a good one. You won't, but hope springs eternal.

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