CENTURIES OLD AFRICAN TEXTS FOUND

They found some ancient texts which prove that culture, mathematics, astronomy and science existed there long before our own North America was settled by the cowboys and pilgrims. Big Surprise--not.

So AOL, as usual, posts the news and then opens up the Idiot door so people can comment. Check it out sometime if you ever want to see how truly asinine people can be yet still write and own a computer. One guy, or I think it's a guy, writes asking what Africa has contributed:

"Nothing I can think of. How about anniliating your fellow tribesmen?"

The poor bloke can't spell, but forget that, we already know he's no genius. I wrote the following to him:

Nothing you can think of, eh?
Maybe you ought to do some more thinking, my friend. Africa has been more civilized for more centuries than you could ever dream.

Sit in on an African Village meeting and see how they use wisdom, integrity and fair play to deal with their local matters. I did. It blew my mind. I wondered who were the primitive ones: them or us?

Our pilgrims landed here and at once began hostile acts against the friendly natives. Murder, grave robbing, you name it; the Pilgrims did it.

We burned 'witches', we imprisoned 'suspects' with no hope of a trial, we jailed American citizens who happened to be of Japanese or German extraction, and kept out the Chinese because we simply did not like them, but we let them build our railroads, and then threw them the hell out. And now, we focus our frustrations on innocent Mexicans, allowing George Bush to confuse them with real terrorists and make border security an issue - It's a fake issue; bogus, political.

Obviously, you are not a New Yorker; because in this city, we are all here together. We work, rub elbows and shoulders, eat each other’s cuisines, suffer together, learn each another’s languages, and generally recognize we are not all alone in this world. We get along. We like it this way, too.

NOW, THINK. No, really – THINK!!

If more Americans used our brains instead of our bigotry, we'd really be the best nation on Earth, instead of just saying that we are.

We have committed atrocities and buried the evidence so history won't remember - unless someone with a brain goes looking. And yet we sit here, smug, critical of others, conveniently forgetting our own weaknesses -- just plain racists. Sure, I’m sickened, just as you are, by the killing, the genocide. But don’t blame all of Africa for that.

What makes Africa look low down and primitive is the Earth climate changes which reduced them to a bunch of starving, broken down cultures scrambling for their very existence. Blame their sick, demented warlords, blame AIDS, starvation, blame the same kind of twisted mind that created a Hitler, or a Senator Joe McCarthy, or Jesse Helms, Stalin, Milosevic, and then take a look at us 'average Joes' - we fool only ourselves by saying we bring "democracy" to others, when we don't even know how to hold onto it for ourselves.

Our leaders send soldiers to Iraq to bring them DEMOCRACY, and yet they mess around with our voting machines and steal our elections. It’s bad; I’m not even sure who really won the last presidential election, but now I have more doubts than ever.

Look at our own leaders have created so much doubt and lack of faith in who we are, we have no right to point any fingers at other peoples. Just take a look to see what has already happened to democracy in our own country. Only the recent elections have pulled my outlook for our nation's future from the depths.

So please, do think again - and don't lower your mind to the level of the bigots who love to spew their ignorance here on these AOL boards.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, but remember the Pilgrims were not at all nice to the “Indians”. > <BR>