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To: American Spirit who wrote (279274)	3/9/2006 11:32:54 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576601

RE:"Amazingly sick, huh? But it makes sense that there's a hangover from slavery surviving as a residue in our society. Just look at the way Bushies treated poor blacks during Katrina, and/or the way Bushies stripped blacks of voting rights in Florida 2000. They still don't consider them citizens I guess despite a few Uncle Toms like Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas." Man you're right on. Nuts too.

To: American Spirit who wrote (279274)	3/9/2006 12:34:10 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576601

"Under the conditions which slaves lived, only the most strong survived. Others were literally worked to death, or perished during ocean voyages or from poor health care" I'll grant you the bit about the slave ships. But the rest is nonsense. For one, breeding program or not, there wasn't enough generations to have a significant effect. And that assumes the slaveholders had enough control over their breeding. Two, while their lives weren't nice, working a slave to death doesn't make sense. They cost and were worth money, so killing them would have been dumb. Most slaveholders only had a slave or two, replacing them on a regular basis like you suggest happened would have bankrupted most slaveholders.