Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:38:18 +0100
From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Colin Powell's parents were from Jamaica - ostensibly he has so called
'slave blood' in his genetic make up.
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Mario responds:
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Good point, but not good enough. This is what happens when uninformed
outsiders try to insert themselves into discussions about the social situation
in the US.
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I should have made it clear that those blacks with African blood, like Barack
Obama, and those with slave blood that originated outside the US, like Colin
Powell, have a completely different attitude and experience than those whose
slave blood came from American slaves. As soon as the latter finally gained
full civil rights in the mid-60s, they were immediately deemed by American
political liberals as incapable of helping themselves and thereby needing a
Nanny Government to help them - the very thing that keeps most of them from
achieving their full potential.
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No other American community has been burdened by the heavy hand of Nanny
Government as the descendants of American slaves. Those of them who have
removed that millstone from around their necks and joined the mainstream are
doimg as well or better than most other Americans, other than the highest
American achievers who trace their ancestry to Japan, India and the Philippines.
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