From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> I'd bet that a majority of the blacks in the US never received their 40
> acres and a mule during reconstruction because they were not adult males
> who were still enslaved in Confederate states.
Even those who were enslaved were treated better than Sierra Leone would treat
them _today_.
ref: "Exodus from Africa" on CNN International now through August 19
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, and ego.
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.
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