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Old 02-10-2009, 21:18   #16
Sigaba
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Originally Posted by Richard View Post

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To carry out the provisions of this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated $8,000,000.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.40.IH:
The resolution's sponsors could save the tax payers a few million dollars if the two gentlemen and their staffs were to enroll in a freshman level American history class at a local college or university. They would quickly find that the questions they think have been 'unexplored' have been answered in great detail by generations of scholars.

IMHO, there are important conversations to be had about the role racism has played and continues to play in America but this proposal is a road map leading in the wrong direction.
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