XPost: hfx.general, mtl.general, calgary.general 
 XPost: can.politics 
 From: campbell@neotext.ca 
  
 On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:21:50 -0600 
 "Doc Holoiday"  wrote: 
  
 > "Boy Toy cockluvr and assfocker"  spewed some 
 rightoid 
 blackspin in message 
 [deletia]. 
  
 The whole issue of what we are apologizing for needs to 
 be considered in terms of the origin and history of head 
 taxes levied on Chinese. 
  
 The "head tax", per-se, was actually one of the lesser 
 indignities heaped on Chinese immigrants.  Initially, 
 it was intended as a "leveler" vis-a-vis other groups 
 providing large-scale manpower.  Most Chinese were 
 hired in gangs and had their way paid as part of 
 an employment package, and Irish had to pay their 
 own way.  That, anyways, was the rationale, and 
 in the US, at least, the head tax usually amounted 
 to about the cost of a one way transit from Hong Kong. 
  
 Much more onerous and intentionally destructive to 
 people and community was the ban on Chinese women. 
  
 Dhu 
  
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