Jefferson's Pillow

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

PM>I might be daring enough to ask if  p-listers would be willing to accept the not very daring proposition that racism is less the cause of
PM> slavery than an after the fact defense of and therefore result of it.

PM> P.
i tend to agree with you paul. social darwinism sure didn't help in
the matter.

>I'm not trying to be touchy, only clear.  The above is true, but the wealth
>creators are the French, not the cane cutters.
i'm afraid i do not agree with that, malignD. it must be the marxist in
me, uh. whatever it is, i might agree that the french and their slaves
both participate in wealth creation, surely not that the french alone
create the wealth. and it's not alternative history either. i think
the cane cutters are at the first level of wealth creation.

greg