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| Flag burners rant at Daily Jolt |
| 2001-10-24 |
Someone claiming to represent the creeps who last week burned a flag at Amherst College has posted an essay on a local Web site called the Daily Jolt. Sample: The United States of America is built upon a history of violence and repression. This began with the genocide of Native Americans who inhabited this land before the arrival of European colonizers and it continued as Black people were brought here as slaves to provide the labor necessary for the country's development. Still today, Mexicans living in the West are regarded as "illegal aliens" in a land that was their home long before it was conquered by the U.S. in 1848, and immigrants continue to arrive every day to this country sold on the "American dream", only to be forced into menial work deemed unfit for "real Americans." The construction and maintenance of America depends on the marginalization and exploitation of those excluded. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |