Re: [Noise] was Re: Giving 6 year old kids Uzi's

>At 5:14 PM -0700 7/22/96, Ernest Hua wrote:

>>Or the way many blacks were lynched (physically and socially) in the South.
>>Or the way many asians were segregated.  Or the way many ethnic groups
>>fought each other in inner cities.
>>
>>These are cultural relics of the good ol' days I simply can do without.

Few armed blacks were lynched.  Like--none.  

In any case, posession of machined metal is in no way comparable to
lynching.  Massed armed attacks on people simply because they are alleged to
have possessed machined pieces of metal the size and shape of fifty-cent
pieces (the reason for the BATF attack on the religious community outside of
Waco) *is* comparable to lynching.

DCF

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C'punks,

At 5:14 PM -0700 7/22/96, Ernest Hua wrote:
> 
> >>Or the way many blacks were lynched (physically and socially) in the South.
> >>Or the way many asians were segregated.  Or the way many ethnic groups
> >>fought each other in inner cities.
> >>
> >>These are cultural relics of the good ol' days I simply can do without.

To which Duncan Frissell responded:
 
> Few armed blacks were lynched.  Like--none.  

And let's not forget the Chinese.  Unarmed Chinese laborers 
where often robbed in 1849 California.  The existance and
vitality of San Francisco's Chinatown has been attributed to
the fact that--unlike their rural cousins--the SF Chinese
community armed itself with guns in response to racially
motivated violence against them.  The lived and prospered;
other, unarmed, California Chinese communities did not.


 S a n d y

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