I find it sad that while there is still slavery in this world, the reparations crowd ignors the present practitioners, many of whom happen to be African, and instead focus on North America.
I want to make a major exception here to many Black Americans and others who participate in a well-intended program to buy slaves from slaveholders at $40 US each. There was an ignored article in the boston Globe covering this a couple weeks ago. These people are heros of humanity.

-philw (not one easily given to praise)

P.S. Justin & Robert - Take some seasoned software product development advice stop screwing with the special effects and do a bbs design freeze. The subject header appears as a scroll bar in replies again.