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To: tejek who wrote (220425)	2/24/2005 5:53:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1588367

Yes, its enormous but then there is a hundred years between the two issues. Its not enormous in the sense of a normal progression over 200 years. Its enormous in that is a night and day difference. There is essentially no connection between the two ideas. No, it is not. A color blind process concerns itself with issues of discrimination. Slavery is the outright ownership of one human of another. It goes beyond discrimination and gets into issues of chattel and morality. Certainly slavery goes well beyond ordinary discrimination issues, but racially based slavery is just about the ultimate form of racial descrimination. I guess only genocide would surpass it. Color blind policies are not a natural development from slavery or from the ideas that would support slavery, they are a rejection not just of extreme forms of hatred, discrimination and injustice, but even more mild forms of racial discrimination. Conservatives get into traditions that transcend culture and are more political/religious in nature. Religion is also part of the culture, and politics is intertwined with it. Religion is also enter twined with Thanksgiving. It was a holiday based on a tradion of giving thanks to God. But conservatives are more likely to be concerned with other traditions as well. Some would even argue that they are overconerned or concerned "to a fault" with tradition. I don't think this is true in most cases but it probably is in some. Tim