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	Giving Back

cniq_cniq

11-19-2007 12:51 PM

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western, civilization, culture, service, thomas sowell

cniq_cniq says:

"That process took well over a century, because non-Western societies resisted. White people, as well as black people, were still being bought and sold as slaves, decades after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States.

Those who want to 'give back' should give back the truth. It is a debt that is long overdue."

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