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Originally Posted by scott free
Anyways, i cant & wont be labeled a "closet racist" or any other kind of racist for that matter. Not that you did, but some here feel that if someone disagrees with them, that they are a bunch of cowardly racists.
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I agree with your concern, but when those "some here" extrapolate the actions of a very small number of people as indicative of the actions of an entire race, that's what I have a problem with.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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