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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Actually, it could be easily argued that the "Rich White Boys" in power GAVE the rights away because it was inconvenient to fight a war on two fronts (Vietnam and at home.) Really, they didn't have to. It wasn't out of altruism that they did it. It was political expedience. FORTUNATE expedience, since to go the other way WOULD have been to deny everything that the US stood for, and since without it, such a war might very well have happened. If it hadn't been for Vietnam, it might have turned out differently. In the US's fear of the 'Red Menace' it had already begun a slide in that direction. It's interesting when we talk about 'superior' and 'inferior,' since they're such subjective terms. Certainly, most other cultures would be GLAD to have our problems, don't you think? I mean, this could be Rwanda. Or the Congo. Or Albania. Or Tibet. Or Afghanistan. Or Kashmir. You know, it WAS dead white males who came UP with 'all men are created equal' as a workable concept, even if we DO have some problems keeping it an ideal. Everywhere the idea sprang up since, it has done so because of OUR influence, and the last time it was tried before here was ancient Greece. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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