RB> Haha... I always like the idea of exclusion as a response to
RB> dissenting opinion 
RB> -- *very* American! This country *was* founded on racism,
RB> since most expansion  before industrialism (during the
Why didn't you count sexism too?  Women were not much
better off then the slaves.  Oh yeah, classism also.
Only the rich property owners could vote.  Don't forget
xenophobia, after all most of the founders were former
British.
Maybe you didn't include that because you know that
even before the revolution slavery was a dividing
issue.  Maybe you also know that it was the issue which
almost caused the union not to be.
RB> period of 'primitive accumulation,' that's a  big economics
RB> word you might not know) resulted from cheap agrarian labor
RB> -  that is, slaves. 
In the South that's true.
RB> Not only was this country founded on racism, but has
RB> supported worldwide racist 
And supported the growth of free countries world wide. 
RB> regimes (South Africa), and continued to have blatantly
Which happened to have some of the largest deposits of
materials vital to the military.  So we could have
either supported SA and continued to exist as a nation.
Or we could have told them we wouldn't trade with them
until the changed and the USSR might have been the only
remaining super power.
RB> Can you deny this? Or do you not care, because you're white?
I deny your basic premise that the US was founded on
racism.  If that were so there would have been no free
blacks any where in the US.  Also we would not have
killed (I can't find the number right now) people to
end slavery.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
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