>this debate was centered around AIDS
>posibly being manmade. Your taking
>America's long sordid history into
>account, but all your logic
>thus far has been: America
>has been/is fucked up, Black
>people have AIDS, therefore America
>is responsible for Africans and
>African Americans who have AIDS.

that is an incorrect summary of the post you are replying to...the argument was actually "white Americans have engaged in the deliberate infection of Af-Am populations before, Af-Ams are disproportionately affected, thus HIV _may be_ another case of white Americans deliberately infecting Af-Ams with a pre-existing disease". At least TRY to see the other side of the argument, that is the hallmark of intellectual discourse.

>
>It's easy to use nationalism to
>hide behind when your logic
>is faulty.

It is easy to discount someone with an opinion different from yours by saying that their logic is faulty. TRY LISTENING (or here on the Net, *reading carefully*) and actually considering the points on the other side.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit

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