In article <1226131818_733@isp.n>, strabo
wrote:
> Guy Bannis wrote:
> > You do realize that the looting of people and resources from the African
> > continent is what financed the development of the first world.
> >
> > Those wealthy, prettily dressed English families in Jane Austen movies
> > (to tie back to alt.showbiz.gossip) got their money from the slave
> > trade.
> >
>
> The African people were subsistence farmers and hunters. They didn't
> have anything. Some British raw materials came from plantations in
> Africa, Indonesia and India which they used in manufacturing.
>
> Slavery was common throughout human history though the British were
> not major slave traders. That would be the Arabs.
>
>
> >
> > DeBeers would not be anywhere without creating apartheid in South
> > Africa. Your bling, that is.
> >
>
> Apartheid was not created. It occurs naturally.
>
> >
> > Heck, John McCain's family would be nowhere were it not for the slaves
> > that worked their plantation.
> >
>
> McCain's family didn't have land or slaves. He married Cynthia
> Hensley the HEIRESS to Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch
> distributors in the nation. The Hensleys didn't have slaves either.
>
Now I see what this country suffers from -- people like you.
Keep in mind that McCain's family -- both black and white -- hold annual
family reunions. John's brother, Joe, attends them regularly. |
