Originally posted by ink
Mixtec,

“It was never a policy to wipe out the indians.”

They really taught you that at school??? Holy cr@p!

Im not going to get that deep into this subject with you. I have better things to do than try to interpret US historical policy much less US current policy. Alls you have to do is turn on the news nowadays to see that the world spends too much time looking at things from a US perspective.

Originally posted by weasel
There’s a lot of macho rubbish spouted about spinning :rolleyes:.

Yeah, like Whiskey Delta who thinks he can recover from a full stall within a couple a hundred of altitude. Do us a favor Whiskey, have someone videotape you doing a full stall with only 500 ft of altitude. And if you do, alls I can say is will miss your presence here.

ink-
“Also, I have a question, a genuine question (really, I mean nothing by this, I’m just curious):”

ok, I try to answere with the watered down storybook US history I was taught in school.

“When the constitution was written did the US still employ a policy of ethnic cleansing towards the native population? …”

It was never a policy to wipe out the indians. If the indians were hostile, the white settlers would fight them. But other than that, they were just driven from their land by farmers and cattle ranchers. Remember the indians lived off the land, and land ownership was an idea the indians did not have. The indians were slowly pushed farther and farther west except for places where they could subsist without interference from settlers (which eventually ended up being nowhere).

“Ok, more than one question: Was there still slavery when the constitution was written?”

Yes, both in north and south and central america.

“Did, following the civil war (to make all the states bow to beautiful democracy) the US government still evict native Americans from their homes and send them thousands of miles across deserts or whatever to “reservations”? “

Yes of course, how many indian land barrons do you think there are in the US?

“Closer to the present, when did the US government finally allow mixed race units in the US armed forces?”

Im not sure, I think they had segregation of one form or another all the way up to WW2.

“WHen were leaders of ethnic minority causes (like Malcom X and Dr Martin Luther King) have to fight, sometimes violently, against the horrendous institutionalised racism?”

I dont know much about Malcom X, but Martin Luthur King followed Gandhi’s tactics of passive resistance to segregation in the south.

Is it just me, or does the Berlin love parade look exactly like a gay pride parade?

I have an optical mouse myself, but if I dont use my placemat, the palm of my hand quickly starts hurting due to the hard surface of my desk. I miss using webtv where I could sit on the couch and web surf with my wireless keyboard. If they ever start making 27″ monitors Ill go back to doing that again.

In the last few years I think there is a problem with Americans and Europeans coming off as snobby or a “too cool” attitude. The funny thing is its not really intelligent people who do this but the brat/punks who try and pull this off, you know the type, tatoos,noserings, bargain basement clothes, your basic jerks.

I was changing my profile information on my hotmail account and I found that there were boxes checked that said “yes, I do want hotmail to share my personal information with other companys” 😡 . I dont recall those boxes being there when I set up the account oh so long ago. I guess these default settings explains the rash of spam as of late.