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home ownership, which of course is the ultimate goal.

HOGWASH wrapped in poppycock tampon. what a stupid thing to say and assume. the benefits of home ownership are mostly a myth, a ploy by the government and big banks to have everyone by the nuts. screw that.

*rob*

Of course there’s no historical precedent montrose – it didn’t happen! My claim is that it eventually would have. No way to prove it of course.

I’m not saying anyone should be happy for slavery MM. I was asking ishtar a rhetorical question, not making a claim. Obviously I’m not going to go there, that would be silly and too offensive even for me.

It’s a fun distinction though, isn’t it legion?

Lechecal, your premise that native peoples in North America would have eventually expanded across the ocean to Europe to wreak havoc, has no historical precidence. Even the most warlike tribes, who did go out and conquer weaker tribes, did not have the Western concept of land ownership that makes European colonization as destructive as it could be. I’m sure you know that, too.

Also, considering the legacy of slavery in this hemisphere, saying we (black folks) are perversely better off for it, could be grounds for getting your ass kicked by those who don’t know you for the provocateur that you are. Even given that, it’s pretty insensitive to the horrors of the Middle Passage, 200 years of slavery, and the inequalities suffered ever since. Not funny or cool, at all.