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33841, what are you calling "strong"?
Posted by LexM, Fri Jul-15-05 03:26 PM
>>No Hispanic population having ever been enslaved in
>America?
>>Could it be related to the fact that there has never been
>>large scale instituional (legal or otherwise) racism levied
>>against any Hispanic population? Could it be possiblly
>related
>>to the fact that MOST hispanic families in America consist
>of
>>no more than two generations of individuals born in this
>>country?
>
>As I stated in post 13, black families remained strong
>throughout and after slavery. This was proven by Herbert G.
>Gutman in the book "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom."
>And if our families can remain strong through slavery, we
>should be able to survive "large scale institutional racism."

and that's just one book.


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