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<DIV>Sunil,</DIV>
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<DIV>Look, you had time to ask the question in the first place, you had time to
ask me why I hadn't answered and now I am guilty of stealing you away from your
work and your family. You have not given any tone to the conversation that
has made it pleasant. If this is so difficult for you why post in the
first place? I did not accuse you of hostility due to your work load;
until you told me you had work to do, how am I supposed to know?
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<DIV>I can certainly appreciate family time and encourage you to partake, but
don't get upset when you ask me to answer a question that was not visible in the
first place and even after finding it, was not easy to decipher. The
statements out of the slavery pamphlet WERE taken out of context and given the
delicate nature of the subject can be misused outside of the whole text.
This has already occurred in this forum, and I fear, you are doing the same
thing.</DIV>
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<DIV>You have already started putting words in the mouths of the authors.
They did not say that "race relations in that period were superior to those of
any other time and place". Even what they did say doesn't mean that there
are no race relations that are good right now. Condoning a multi-racial
marriage would have been wrong then and it is wrong now. Like any
marriage, if is entered into as it should, race has no bearing. I am glad
that you are happily married and enjoy your children. My wife and I
have good friends that are a multi-racial couple, and they exemplify the
kind of relationship we should all have with those different then us.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stop for a moment to read and consider what the
authors of that book actually said, not what you think they said.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will chase down those references and send them to
you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ted Ryan</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=coffeemonkey100@hotmail.com
href="mailto:coffeemonkey100@hotmail.com">coffeemonkey100@hotmail.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 30, 2004 9:01
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Re: Earlier
question</DIV>
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<P>Ted,</P>
<P>Do you think me hostile because I had work to do? I did point out
that I didn't have time to clean up the post earlier; next time I shall
pompously add, "I have terribly important appointments that will prevent me
from cleaning up my prior post; why, I must be in Orofino by 4," in order to
avoid any hard feelings.</P>
<P>It seems to me that you no longer make the claim that the
statements that so charitably describe race relations in the antebellum South
were taken out of context; instead you say that they correctly describe the
situation, at least most of the time.</P>
<P>In other words, race relations in that period were superior to those of any
other time and place, which I take to include our present time. Now,
anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S. were not declared unconstitutional until
the early 1960s (that meddling US Supreme Court, at it again.) Would my
mixed marriage have been legal in the anti-bellum South? I don't think
so, but maybe I'm the victim of the Goebbelesque campaign responsible for
tarring the reputation of the South. I'm thinking that if I could not
have married the lovely Anne-Marie back then and there, it would have cut way
down on our mutual intimacy and harmony, but perhaps I'm wrong.</P>
<P>The pamphlet may not mourn the passing of slavery; I remain far more
interested in the description of race relations in the South at the time,
whether found in the pamphlet or in your post. If you are willing to
cite the sources that support your description, I would like to see them; if
not, I'd appreciate it if you could tell me who mentioned them in the December
archive. I gave up looking, and I want to play with my kids now instead
of looking further.</P>
<P>Sunil</P>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Ted Ryan" <coffeemonkey100@hotmail.com>
<DIV></DIV>>To: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com>
<DIV></DIV>>CC: <vision2020@moscow.com>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Earlier question
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:40:48 -0700
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Well, I will look at that. But you were the one who
said "I think". You can go to the archives for that.
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<DIV></DIV>>I don't know why the attachment gets scrubbed, but it makes it
more difficult to carry on a conversation when it is interrupted by code.
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<DIV></DIV>>A repost would have been a courteous thing to do, I am not sure
why you are so hostile about this.
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<DIV></DIV>>Ted Ryan
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