it does?

Not tried it with micro$oft

The problem is NOT that George Bush doesn't like Black People (for George, and his ilk, it's more about hating poor people). The problem is that the voters that support Bush hate black people, and they are numerous enough to give their leaders election victory.

Any nation with a massive slave population will have various engines of racist propaganda to keep hatred at a maximum, to maintain the master/slave divide, and keep political power away from the slave class. Anyone who tracked the various US forums after the flooding of New Orleans etc., will have seen examples of this.

However, it is possible to praise the US for giving its slave class citizenship. This is more than most countries do. I would guess that America will finally see Black people get real power when they follow in the footsteps of the muslims, as they displace the jews as the dominant minority there. In human history, numbers eventually win out!

The real pity is that just after the US Civil War, Black Americans had true freedom, and equal rights. However, with hardly a pause, the legal establishment used its full powers of creativity to strip Black people of every new won freedom, and one can easily argue that it took Black's until the 1970's to win back what they gained in the days after the South surrendered.

REMEMBER, in 1945, with the FULL ASSISTANCE of the British Government, Black servicemen were sent to prison on their return to the USA for the crime of having married white British women. I would happily state that this was a crime on par with Hitler's Death Camps!!! Even today, some TV stations in the South will not show programs depicting relationships between so-called black and white people.

One thing I have NEVER understood, and that is how on earth did US authorities KNOW if someone was 'black'. I mean, what on earth is the 'test'. And please don't spout racist crap about the person's grandparents, or whatever, because that just pushes the self same question further back! When American courts were sending couples to prison in the 60's for having inter-racial sex, how the hell did they prove their victims 'whiteness' or 'blackness'.

It is a sad and depressing fact that for most nations, the judges and lawyers will almost always be far more morally repugnant than the worst offender tried by the court. Juries are used as both disinfectant, and deodorant, but even they can't hide the stench and decay that comes with such a rotten system. We should not puzzle that so many politicians are lawyers, but we should puzzle why we are stupid enough to permit this!

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