From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/16/2023 3:37 AM, Peter W. wrote:   
   > The issues with the Irish and the Italians were regional, and lasted,   
   perhaps 75 years from end-to-end. And, the Irish and Italians intermarried   
   with the incumbents (for lack of a better term) pretty freely. Neither the   
   Irish, nor the Italians, nor the    
   Poles, nor the Jews, nor the Lithuanians, were ever chattels (property).   
   >   
   > Again, as long as one ignores 500 years of history, and as long as one   
   ignores the fact that slaves, children of slaves and native Americans were   
   denied the means of building wealth - education, land ownership, training,   
   military opportunities,    
   mortgages and much more - not for a few years, but for several centuries -   
   your solution makes perfect sense.   
   >   
   > Peter Wieck   
   > Melrose Park, PA   
      
   Well said!   
      
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