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To: Ohioan

Calling the notion that all men are created equal the vile refuse of the far left denounces one of the foremost American values. Suggesting that the Civil Rights movement was a mistake-as the article you referenced does-is contemptible. As for your other reference, where is the source? Neither of these references seem credible, you can't just give someone something that some loony wrote and expect them to take it to heart. It is very sad to see people at a conservative website denying one of the darker parts of our history, I thought that we were above and beyond that. Realize that this racism existed, realize where it came from, and its manifestations, and move on. Such denial only insenses the people that acutally suffered-and there are still some alive today.


110 posted on 12/17/2004 3:18:21 PM PST by honest2God
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To: honest2God
Realize that this racism existed

Racism still exists sherlock.

The sooner we stop demeaning all forms of racisim and realizing that some forms are okay, they better off all of us will be.

ML/NJ

116 posted on 12/17/2004 6:16:05 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: honest2God
If you have an argument against what I say on the Civil Rights movement in Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today, make it. The facts cited as to the origins of the movement may be verified. That it embraces a different concept of the role of Government, from what was embraced by the Founding Fathers, is obvious, if you but analyze what was being advocated.

I did not suggest that the concept that all men were created equal was refuse. What was refuse is the smear of the Southern hierarchy. Why don't you read the Declaration of Independence through as an entity, and understand what Jefferson, Adams and Franklin were acually saying. It hardly supports your argument. They certainly were not attacking the landed gentry in the American South. (See Declaration Of Independence.)

William Flax

154 posted on 12/18/2004 7:32:01 AM PST by Ohioan
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