But Liss - America has never been free like we have.
They had slaves until only 140 years ago. They tried to ban alcohol in the 1920s Read up - if you haven't already - about the McCarthy Communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. Even in the 1960s they thought it okay to make you eat/drink/pee in separate, lesser, facilities if your skin colour was different - never mind education. Even today, employment protection laws are designed to protect the employer, not the worker - I read somewhere that Bill Gates could never have built Microsoft in France.
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Date: 2007-08-09 12:07 pm (UTC)They had slaves until only 140 years ago.
They tried to ban alcohol in the 1920s
Read up - if you haven't already - about the McCarthy Communist witch-hunts in the 1950s.
Even in the 1960s they thought it okay to make you eat/drink/pee in separate, lesser, facilities if your skin colour was different - never mind education.
Even today, employment protection laws are designed to protect the employer, not the worker - I read somewhere that Bill Gates could never have built Microsoft in France.
Land of the free - don't make me laugh!