From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:16:34 -0400, Adam  wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:17:01 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>>> The constitution only counted if you were white. No change there
>>>>> then.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's not what it's supposed to be.
>>>>
>>>
>>> CHuckle. Yeah & it was written by those enjoying the
fruits of slavery,
>>> men are equal....liberty....etc....but obviously not the slaves....
>>>
>>> Adam
>>  Slaves were not considered to be human beings at the time, terrible
>> from our viewpoint certainly, but one share by your own country during
>> its own history.
>>  --Gary Wiltshire
>
> We made no such silly official statements wrt liberty & the pursuit of
> happiness & all men being equal etc.

Do you know just what volumes about your own mentality regarding humanity
you just uttered.
>
> If you were a black briton of the period (& there were more than you
> might imagine) then you were by definition not a slave.

If you were a black northerner of the period then you were by definition
not a slave either.  Don't try and pretend that black briton was a fully
accepted member of white British society, either -- and not so long ago it
was YOUR society that invented the phrase "Pakibashing."
>
> Remember Rule Britannia came out in 1740 & contains the line:
>
> "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves"

There is YOU giving the lie to the above claim "we made no such silly.."
>
> I note no similar American refrain.
>
> Adam



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Gary Wiltshire

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