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To: nihil who wrote (3436)	4/12/1999 4:45:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

I'm sorry if I mistakenly attributed the quote to Sherman, just moving around the Web a bit too fast...Anyway, official U.S. policy was to remand the Indians to reservations, where they would be able to govern themselves. However much this turned into an exploitative situation, it is not the same as genocide, since it is not a deliberate policy of physical destruction of a people, or the forcible destruction of a people by virtue of destroying their traditions...Whether or not it has always been American law that African- Americans should be treated as equal citizens, it is so now. Regardless of the circumstances by which their ancestors arrived, they are Americans. I live in an integrated neighborhood, and my sister-in-law is African- American. My brother and his wife have encountered very little discrimination. I'd say that America has come a long way...Given the political turmoil in Mexico, and the increasingly Anglo pattern of settlement in the Southwest, I think the outcome of the Texas rebellion and the Mexican War was reasonable...Your last paragraph is not perfectly intelligible. I agree that we should have interethnic justice, if you mean equality under the law. If you mean a racial spoils system, or the perpetuation of "victim politics", we part company...