MR FINKELMAN,
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO, IN YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS OPINION, MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A "THOROUGH GOING RACIST" OR, FOR THAT MATTER, JUST A PLAIN, LONG, OLD, REGULAR RACIST, IN THE 18TH CENTURY WESTERN WORLD. DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT IF YOU HAD BEEN ALIVE IN THE 18TH CENTURY, WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF THE HINDSIGHT OF A 21ST CENTURY PERSON, YOU JUST MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN A TYPICAL, AVERAGE, NORMAL WHITE MAN WHO PRESUMED, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE (EXCEPT THE MAN OF COLOR), THAT THE WHITE RACE WAS THE SUPERIOR RACE?
GIVE ME A BREAK: EVERYONE WAS A THOROUGH GOING RACIST BACK THEN. EVERYONE!
DEANE MILLS
13TH GENERATION (PROVEN) VIRGINIAN

> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 3:24 PM

 Re: "common-sense Jeffersonian conservative principles"
he was a thorough going
> > racist, who believed that blacks were mentally inferior to whites, and
> > he wanted to remove all Indians to someplace else (like where I live);
> > he invented the Indian removal.
> >
> > Unlike modern conservaitves, he believed in balanced budgets and worked
> > at them; he was a free trader, except when it came to the Embargo
> > against Haiti and then Europe.
> >
> > Unlike moderns conservatives, he believed in a small military and
> > avoided military adventurism whenever possible.
> >
> > And, unlike modern Consrvatives and  Republicnas, he did, to his great
> > credit, believe in religious freedom and a strict separation of Church
> > and State.
> >
> > Finally, of course, he believed in racial subordination and slavery.  I
> > will refrain from commenting on whether that fits with the
> > administration or Sen. Allen
> >
> > Paul Finkelman
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