Text 14883, 66 rader
Skriven 2008-05-06 17:50:31 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 14840 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Unrest in France
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30 Apr 08 07:51, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RB> Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday April 29 2008 at 08:22:

 RB>>> And such things also don't happen "all the time". There was a major
 RB>>> unrest just before Sarkozy became president, when he was the
 RB>>> interior minister, and a minor unrest just afterwards, sparked when
 RB>>> two North African kids on a stolen motorbike rammed a police car
 RB>>> and were killed - the police were blamed for the accident and that
 RB>>> sparked a riot.

 RW>> You guys really aren't getting this news? Typical.

 RB> Mind telling me how you reach this conclusion just after I described
 RB> the situation to you?

You're one in 5, perhaps 6 outspoken people from Z2 that hang out here.
There are at least 3 of you who are out and out liars. Only one of you
disagrees with the others when they tell their lies about things in Europe
and almost always disagrees with the lies told by at least two of the
others. He may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer and certainly not
the easiest to get along with, but I think deep down, he's at least
honest.

 RB>>> Admittedly, the situation is difficult, but it's hardly something
 RB>>> that will tear the country apart.

 RW>> It will, in time.

 RB> You're too intelligent to believe that, Roy.

You'll realize I'm right when you see the EU shrink back to 10 states.

 RB> But if you do, take a look at:

 RB> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

 RB> My dad was there at the time, and his dad was working with the
 RB> railroad company, where he protected his black workers by keeping
 RB> them at the railroad station and supplying them with food and water
 RB> until the situation came under control. My dad often told me about
 RB> what he saw, and it makes what happened in Paris look like a tea
 RB> party.

This of course, was before the Civil Rights Act, which changed lots of
things in America. Not immediately, of course, but over the years it
mellowed and finally withered away to nothing. The old racial ideas have
died over the last 40 years and you don't see race riots here like your
dad saw in 1921.  BTW, there was also a town in Florida about this time
where the entire town of blacks was wiped out.

 RB> That didn't tear the States apart, nor will the present problems with
 RB> North African immigrants tear France apart.

I didn't imply that it would. There is more to it than I can write about
here. Don't forget that 100 years before the Civil Rights Act was passed
by Congress, these people were slaves and had no rights. Especially no
right to congregate and become confrontational like yours over there. The
would have been strung up for even making the attempt.

                R\%/itt



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