Bzeste Peter, Philip is geen vrien van mij, ik vind het alleen leuk om deze schrijfwijze te gebruiken. Je weet wel dat dit zijn echte naam is en dat hij er Filip heeft van gemaakt. Dacht dat dit cynisch bedoeld was, maar blijkbaar net begrepen.

Ik ken inderdaad niets van het Romeins strafrecht, maar als er in je strafrecht staat dat slavernij kan, leef je dan niet is een discriminerende maatschappij die de wortels left van racisme. Ik ben meer waard dan een slaaf, een slaaf is nog minder waard dan een hond. Is racisme niet gebaseerd op het hoger stellen van bepaalde groepen t.o.v. andere groepen? De "wetenschappelijk gefundamenteerde" onderzoeken die men 150 jaar geleden deed naar bv. schedels van zwarten in vgl. met schedels van witten vormden dan misschien wel een basis voor de racistische ideologie. Het afmaken van vreemden, anderskleurigen is toch iets ouder.  
Desmond, ik vond zijn boeken maatschappij kritisch maar dan moet je zeker tussen de regels lezen.

U verdeigt hier de regeringspartijen. Het zijn wel zij die 3000! mensen per maand de grens over zetten, Roma-zigeuners laten uitwijzen zonder hun rechten te eerbiedigen. Dezelfde regering die vindt dat drugs in het strafrecht moeten blijven alhoewel weed smoren een gebruik van 5000 jaar oud is.
Dezelfde regering die niet durft op te treden tegen bedrijven en maatschappijen die het arbeidsrecht niet eerbiedigen.
deze regering legt alleen de rode loper voor het Blok. Op voorhand al een deal sluiten om een partij niet toe te laten is toch niet democratisch?



Kijk maar naar het katholiek racisme van Columbus en anderen.( te vinden op www.globalresearch.org)

The New Right is thus essentially an advocate of a world system that encourages Third World enslavement to the Western ideology and, accordingly, general Western dominance, politically, economically and culturally. In reply to this essentially racist conception which elevates European civilisation to a status of universal superiority, we may recall the cuttingly wry observations of Mark Twain: “In many countries we have chained the savage and starved him to death... in many countries we have burned the savage at the stake... we have hunted the savage and his little children and their mother with dogs and guns... in many countries we have taken the savage’s land from him, and made him our slave, and lashed him every day, and broken his pride and made death his only friend, and overworked him till he dropped in his tracks.” “There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than other savages.” 

When the Americans celebrate Columbus Day they fail to realise that they are celebrating the systematic slaughter of the entire indigenous population of the Americas: Genocide was a central factor in the establishment of the United States. 

The indigenous population “would make fine servants”, noted Columbus. “With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”[18] 18] cited in Zinn, Howard, Failure to Quit: Reflections of An Optimistic Historian, op. cit., p. 13. It is, incidentally, worth pointing out the barely acknowledged fact that Columbus and his fellow colonialists were not the first to ‘discover’ the Americas. In fact, people from other nations, including Europeans, had already visited the continent and mingled with the population. Furthermore, one of the latest set of visitors before the arrival of Columbus were Muslims. A very substantial Muslim presence had thus been established there long before the devastating arrival of the Europeans viz-a-viz Columbus. In fact, it seems that Islam was to some degree responsible for the culture of altruism and fraternity that characterised the Native Americans. For example, the renowned American historian and linguist Leo Weiner of Harvard University noted that Columbus himself was fully aware that West African Muslims had spread throughout the Carribean, Central, South and North American territories, as well as Canada, where they were trading and intermarrying with the Iroquois and Algonquin tribes (Weiner, Leo, Africa and the Discovery of America, 1920). Furthermore, archaeologist and linguist Professor Howard Barraclough [“Barry”] Fell of Harvard University documented solid scientific evidence of the arrival of Muslims in the Americas from North and West Africa centuries before Columbus, and their widespread active presence in America. For example, Fell unearthed the existence of Muslim schools at Valley of Fire, Allan Springs, Logomarsino, Keyhole Canyon, Washoe and Hickison Summit Pass (Nevada), Mesa Verde (Colorado), Mimbres Valley (New Mexico) and Tipper Canoe (Indiana), dating back to 700-800 CE. He found engraved on rocks in the old western US, texts, diagrams and charts constituting the surviving remnants of what had been a system of schools at both elementary and higher levels, in the language of North African Arabic written with old Kufic Arabic script. Subjects of instruction included writing, reading, arithmetic, religion, history, geography, mathematics, astronomy and sea navigation (Fell, Barry, Saga America: A Startling New Theory on the Old World Settlement of America Before Columbus, 1980). For papers documenting the evidence in summary, see especially Mroueh, Youssef, ‘Muslims in the Americas before Columbus’, BIC, UK & MSANews/MSANet; Pimienta-Bey, Jose V., ‘Muslim Legacy in Early Americas: West Africans, Moors and Amerindians’, The Message, 1996; Quick, Abdullah Hakim, ‘Muslims in the Carribean Before Columbus’, Message International, 1992. Barry Fell’s work is most thorough in citing the evidence for the prevalence of Islam in the Americas prior to the European onslaught; of similar worth is Professor Ivan Van Sertima’s They Came Before Columbus (1976) and African Presence in Early America, both offering further information that seen in tandem with Fell’s work is decisive; also see Adib, Rashad, Islam, Black Nationalism and Slavery, 1999; see especially Kennedy, Brent, The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, Mercer University Press, 1994. Other papers on the history and development of Muslim civilisation, including the first two papers cited above, are maintained online by Dr. A. Zahoor (amongst others), and can be viewed at http://users.erols.com/zenithco/index.html, an award-winning site specialising in Muslim history. Also see http://www.muslimemail.com/babri/minority1.htm/. Unfortunately, Western ‘scholarship’ in general tends to ignore or remain silent about such evidence, for reasons bound up with an European cultural imperialism that Edward Said has famously exposed in his classic Orientalism and Culture & Imperialism.