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- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: American Colonization Society
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.165008.1281@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:50:08 GMT
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- | ohall@milori.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
- | > Go back to africa is not that old [400 yrs]. I had to hear it throughout high school
- | > when neither myself or many whites were familiar with what Africa was all
- | > about. So what has happened to that phrase? Are whites afraid it might
- | > come true?
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- American Colonization Society, 1817+, declining after 1840. Designed
- to transport free blacks back to africa. It was attacked by
- abolitionists and not popular with blacks, but it did transport
- 11,000 to 15,000 blacks before 1860 to Liberia (est 1822 or so).
-
- The arriving blacks promptly oppressed the people they found living
- there. Liberia was controlled until about 1980 by american descendents,
- and they still weild considerable influence.
-
- Liberia was most recently in the news due to its civil war.
-
- Mass migration back to Africa is simply not viable -- something
- noted by Toqueville about 150 years ago. There are too many
- blacks in the US for this to be viable. Nor would hardly anyone
- wish to leave. The Boyz in the hood live a middle class life
- style by Egyptian standards, and that is far better than the
- black african states. Further, most blacks do better than
- the hood, many far better.
-
- As to whites being afraid it would come true, every bonified racist
- would jump for joy and the rest would point out you are free to
- do what you wish. The only group hating to see them go would be
- professional statists and the democratic party leadership. Your
- perception of the relative size of those three groups will probably
- differ from mine.
-
- Have a nice day.
-
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- views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
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