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To: longnshort who wrote (580374)	8/11/2010 5:26:24 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1577939

Re: How many Afro-European are leaders of countries there in Europe , Gus boy Well, like I said several years ago, the US is a multiracial monoculture whereas Europe is a multicultural, white monolith... Unlike American settlers, European farmers never brought thousands of African slaves forcefully into Europe. European agriculture never relied on the plantation system where thousands of black slaves toil the land for the benefit of white planters. Of course, there was slavery in Europe --Tsarist Russia was the last country to free slaves, back in the 1890s(?). BUT they were white, European slaves! Non-white immigration to Europe is a very recent phenomenon. I believe the country where it first occurred on a large scale was France, starting with Indochinese workers during WWI, followed by Algerian (Muslim) guest-workers in the 1920s and 1930s... In other words, it's much more commendable for a country like the Netherlands to appoint Ahmed Aboutaleb (a Muslim Moroccan) as the mayor of Rotterdam (the country's business capital, home to 550,000 dwellers) than it is for the US to elect its first black President in 2008... Actually, the black/white divide is the wrong issue to compare race relations in Europe and the US. A better way for you, gringos, to understand what's at stake in Europe's racial throes is to shift to the Anglo vs Latino question: how long before the US elects a Hispanic (wo)man --preferably of Mexican descent-- to the White House? How about having a President Ramirez in the White House? Gus () en.wikipedia.org