On Jun 21, 2007, at 6:49 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > I am not aware of any tragic victims of violence on Christmas Day or > the 4th > of July? > > When and where? Anti-Catholic holiday decorations provoked a day-long street battle in Butte, Montana, on the Fourth of July, 1894, in which at least two people died. The Jews of Warsaw were the "tragic victims of violence" in the Christmas Pogrom of 1881. A number of Americans -- and, surely, some Virginians -- of Jewish ancestry are in the United States today because their forebears fled the Russian Empire in the wake of the bloody Easter Pogrom at Kishinev in 1903. This massacre followed the precedent set by the Holy Week Pogrom in Odessa in 1871. Another Easter Pogrom took place against the Jewish community in Prague in 1389. Then there was the violent Easter Rebellion in Ireland in 1916. In fact, Europeans of yore had a certain knack for doing lethal violence to other Europeans on holy days ("holidays"). The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, a Christian-on-Christian atrocity, is perhaps the most notorious, or at least the most historically significant, example. I await Mr. South's insinuations concerning the barbaric nature of white people. Might I suggest instead that henceforth we refrain from posting and responding to questions and comments whose purpose, if it is not a species of race-baiting, is entirely obscure? -- Jurretta Heckscher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember New Orleans!