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Old December 14th 03, 02:06 AM
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Victor Manta wrote:

Fully agree on the first part. Not a long time ago, I have read that there
were in the US black individuals who owned other black individuals. So that
even if some accept the idea of compensations after hundreds of years, I
wonder how can it be possible to find out who should pay whom under these
circumstances?


One of the strangest dialogues that took place was between the unknown
and apparent offspring of Thomas Jefferson who were black and the known
off-spring. It seems Mr J had a lady on the side. All sorts of
allegations surfaced, then all of a sudden it got real quiet and dropped
out of the news. I'm unsure how it finally played out. I know for a
fact that renumeration and other things are constantly coming up in the
news between the US Government and the Native Americans (Indians if you
prefer). Happens often here in New Mexico too.

As for a stamp with "I'm sorry" on it, I think that the most representative
stamps for the idea of individual liberty are those that show the
implementation of the fundamental ideas that gradually brought liberty to
all citizens. I mean by this the stamps dedicated to the US Constitution,
for example Sc. No: 2412-14, 2355-59, 835, 2336-48, 798, 2360.


Good point, reaffirming what it is supposed to mean.

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