Re: Where are all the historical eels going?


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Posted by Mike Dennis on July 19, 2007 at 15:55:57 from 90.240.199.132 user MTD.

In Reply to: Re: Where are all the historical eels going? posted by Eric Abraham on July 19, 2007 at 12:27:20:

This is getting way off AR, but important.
Do you think the motivation is 'fear and ignorance'? As I get older I begin to wonder, it seems in the UK something deeper. Still, if you're right one day it will be defeated but I fear it is a long time coming.
Rosa Park's story (sorry if this is not the right spelling) has always had my admiration, not just for her act. During World War II my late uncle was sent to Alabama to train as a pilot (he was in the RAF) and one day boarded a bus, he took his seat as he would have done at home and never gave it a thought. A few stops on and a black man gets on and the only seats free are in front of my uncle, so the conductor tells him to move forward, he refuses. After some argument my uncle gives his seat to the black guy and tells him he comes from a free country where anyone can sit where they like on a bus, then gets off the bus and walks the rest of the journey. I suppose it was an easy gesture for a white man but he was the only one who did (unfortunately my uncle was killed in a training flight in the UK a year later - though I know he did his bit in defeating fascism.)


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