In article ,
Jangchub wrote:

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:51:42 -0700, William Rose
wrote:

In article ,
Jangchub wrote:

Be glad to be who you are, those people are missing the entirety of
life's offerings.

said with love and sadness,
Veet



"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot . . ."

(Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell)

- Bill
Cloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American

Ain't no lions or tigers ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev'rybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me

Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You're all gonna be an American

Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

Randy Newman
Sail Away
Sail Away album, when they were called albums, about the great fat lie
lovely Americans told the African's on the slave ships as they landed
in Charleston Bay.

Poof.

I'm not sure that lies were needed when the newly enslaved were
enchained, starving, and packed in like sardines in the holds of the
tall ships that delivered them to the Americas.
To keep it in perspective though, remember that white people were
messin' over white people long before they got the chance to mess over
black people.
Strangely enough, when white people first met black people, they saw
each other's humanity first. Prejudice had to be learned (A People's
History of the United States - by Howard Zinn). This wasn't true of the
Spaniards and the Arowacs though. A gentle, loving people were butchered
in the hopes of finding riches.
You don't need a "time machine" to see that we already live in an age of
Eloids and Morlochs.

- Bill
Cloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)