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On 10/13/2011 11:48 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 10/13/11 11:33 AM, jps wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:01:36 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 10/13/11 9:50 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 10/13/2011 9:24 AM, Drifter wrote:
On 10/13/2011 8:04 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 10/13/11 7:54 AM, Haywood Jablomie wrote:
On 12-Oct-2011, wrote:

Sure... but I know, it sounds good and gives you an excuse to
be a
racist...

Columbus never set foot on any part of the partial continent
that now
makes
up the former United States. Perhaps you would like to go to The
Bahamas,
Hispaniola or Cuba and tell them you're moving in.

None of you loons could define racism with a gun to your head.

Do you drink regularly or just when posting?

Like most "Americans" you have little ability to grasp facts when
superstition and pop rhetoric make you feel like you're functional.
Columbus never set foot on any part of the partial continent that
now
makes
up the former United States.

I love it when you right-wing dumb****s, and I mean that in every
sense
of the word, play disingenuous.

The voyages of Columbus and the ensuing Spanish colonization
foreshadowed the general European invasion of the so-called New
World.
Those voyages led to centuries of European exploration and
exploitation
and slaughter and enslaving of indigenous populations, and,
according to
Columbus himself, infecting the New World with Christianity, and, of
course, pillaging and spread of white man's diseases.


Did Columbus really say this "infecting the New World with
Christianity"? I think you are lying again.

I like the "white mans disease" comment. Talk about racist..


The Europeans brought with them to the "New World" a plethora of deadly
diseases unknown to the indigenous population. The Native Americans
referred to these diseases (such as, for example, smallpox, I believe,as
"white man's diseases.) There were many of these.

As to Christianity, Columbus referred to the bringing of Christianity to
the "New World" his greatest accomplishment. For the indigenous
population, however, it was just another white man's disease.


Snotty is so ****ing stupid, it's big of you to offer a little
perspective to him myopic world. But you're wasting your time.



Having a bit of knowledge of history, it's part of what you get with a
liberal arts education.


And, more importantly, you got deferred. That's what it's all about.