>Those of us who come from various European lineages are not
>blameless... Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation
>that practiced slavery and slaves were quite frequently killed even
>though they were innocent. This country once looked the other way
>when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and
>killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they
>were thought of as less than fully human and we are still paying the
>price today... And even today, though we have continued to walk,
>sometimes to stumble, in the right direction, we still have the
>occasional hate crime rooted in race, religion or sexual
>orientation. So terror has a long history."