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Subject: Human Rights Watch
Original Message Date: 01-Nov-02 @ 06:54 PM - Human Rights Watch
We're starting to get somewhere now...let justice be served on those knots in societies bowels.
Message 31/79 04-Nov-02 @ 10:40 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 32/79 04-Nov-02 @ 10:40 PM Edit: 04-Nov-02 | 10:42 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
and the reason i know it is is because half my family is black and i have to deal with them being physically and verbally abused because of their skin color.. sad but true..
racism is endemic in society... just is.. sorry.. i see it with my own eyes on a daily basis.. and believe if it happened to you you wouldn't stand there and grin about it, you'd probably slug someone.. but then that makes you the violent one doesn't it? So you have to take the abuse and move on... with as much dignity as you can muster..
Message 33/79 05-Nov-02 @ 09:50 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
divide and rule
Message 34/79 05-Nov-02 @ 09:53 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 35/79 05-Nov-02 @ 09:57 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
And history, well don't even get me started on time...
psylichon
Message 36/79 05-Nov-02 @ 10:01 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 37/79 05-Nov-02 @ 11:25 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
And slavery isn't new, right, there was already a healthy slave trade going on in africa when the europeans started turning up and buying slaves from other africans. Although in africa slaves were part of society much as slaves in Greece, the roman empire etc.. were.. the europeans introduced new levels of degradation and brutality into the process..
To give an example... the portuguese worked out how much it cost to feed, keep and clothe a slave for a year and realised that it was cheaper to buy new ones... so they literally worked their slaves to death on a loincloth/minimum diet basis and bought new ones..
anyhow.. yes it's time people dropped the them and us crap on so many levels and playing fields..
I don't think this means pretending that predjudice and injustice doesnt exist tho... cos that just stores up trouble for ever..
ironically, slavery is still going on in africa, eastern europe and asia.. in fact some of our great western corporations have slaves working for them in third world factories..
it's a sad world..
Message 38/79 05-Nov-02 @ 11:55 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Outlooks are like cups of water being half full or half empty
Message 39/79 05-Nov-02 @ 12:14 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 40/79 05-Nov-02 @ 01:44 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
I dont think your attitude helps, even tho you claim if eveyone had it like you it'd be better.
I mean it's a classic right... like with drug addicts or alchoholics or people with any type of 'problem'. They cant fix it until they admit that it is there in the first place, admitting there is a problem is the first step to fixing it surely??
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