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To: CourtneyLeigh
Unfortunately it has been human nature to react to injustice with more injustice, wrongdoing with more wrongdoing.

Here's an example. For centuries deaf people were put in institutions, and when they weren't, they were forced to learn how to speak (an impossibility when there weren't even hearing aids). They were punished for reverting to their natural communication--sign language. When they were finally allowed to use sign language around the 1970s, they overreacted by forming extremist groups that say that speaking, or even reading, is "traitorous" to the deaf community. Then you've got Malcolm X, Zimbabwe, etc.

Now those who have been freed in Iraq after decades under one tyrant's rule are going to the opposite extreme, and embracing communism.

Humanity is incapable of finding a middle ground, sadly.
66 posted on 02/09/2004 8:27:07 AM PST by Nataku X
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To: Nakatu X
Then you've got Malcolm X, Zimbabwe, etc.

Oh, I wouldn't call Zimbabwe part of the anti-blaxploitation bit. It's Mugabe's political coup d'êtat. He's persecuted blacks as well as whites and is trying to paint this as a racial thing so no one interferes with his dictatorship. Check out the facts -- more blacks have been killed, tossed into prison etc. by him than whites.
296 posted on 02/10/2004 12:04:49 AM PST by Cronos (W2004!)
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