Fw: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000)

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.com>
Date: Thu Aug 5 17:28:42 2004

This message got lost , here it is again.
It wasn't censored was it ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Thomas" <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.com>
To: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
> To: "Geoffrey Thomas" <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.com>; "General Discussion:
> On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: OT stupid Welsh and Americans (was Re: Cirris 1000)
>
>
> > Considering the English colonial past, the English don't have the
right
> > to complain about anything! Not only see Opium wars, see black slavery
> > (who do you think shipped the slaves to America and the Caribeaan in
> > exchange for sugar and rum?), Irish potato famine, Endentured Servitude
> > (another word for slavery), debitor's prison, scalp bounties (both in
> North
> > American and for Australian Aborigines), press gangs (ship's crews).
Then
> > go see American Revolution!
> >
> > Now do you REALLY want to get into a debate about English colonial
> past????
> >
> > My 2 cents worth,
> > Joe
>
> I'm not English , I'm Welsh - hence my objection to your use of the term
in
> an offensive (to me ) manner.
> You don't need to tell me about the English colonial past - the Welsh have
> been on the wrong end of it - hence the large migration to the USA to get
> away from them . Hence also the large no. of signatories on the
declaration
> of independence who are of Welsh descent.
>
> Geoff.
>
Received on Thu Aug 05 2004 - 17:28:42 BST