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RUSH LIMBAUGH, conservative radio host, about Cho Seung-Hui, who killed 32 people in the Virginia Tech massacre, in part to take revenge against wealthy people...
PAUL DEYERLE, a Virginia Tech sophomore, who planned to return to school when classes resumed on April...
...this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal...
...there were two peculiar features of Jamestown's, and more broadly Virginia's, transition to a fully functioning slave society that were to have fateful consequences for black Americans. One was the presumption, by the end of the 17th century, that a black person was a slave. The second was the hostility toward manumission and freed blacks generally, leading to laws requiring freed persons to leave the colony. In all the other slave societies of the hemisphere, including those of the French and British, manumission was not uncommon and resulted in the growth of significant freed nonwhite populations, some...
...Powhatan were never obliterated, however. Nor were they pushed into "praying towns" or "removed" westward. Boarding schools to force Indian children to assimilate were few in Virginia. Instead, the nearly landless people reluctantly adopted English ways from their neighbors in the 18th century and went right on surviving in their homeland. They are still with us today: two reservations, plus five nonreservation tribes...