Posted on 03/15/2002 3:43:51 PM PST by Darth Sidious
They surely don't! It's become pretty much impossible for a white who knows anything about American history to teach black students, unless he's willing to lie. The weird thing is, that as more and more information comes out about the grayness of slavery (black freedmen in the South, black slaveowners, virtual freedom, Northern racism, etc.), the ed commissars are imposing a victimological pseudo-history that veers ever farther into fantasyland, away not only from what is now known, but from the limited knowledge of, say, sixty years ago.
BTTT.
Today it's 5,737.
I've no idea what goes into these rankings, but as it seemed a significant increase thought you guys should know :-)
Y'know... when one studies up on how slavery really was in the Old South, they can't help but think that we, in modern America, are far more the slaves than anyone ever was in the 1800s.
That's great news.
Either a lot of people are going straight for "Shakedown" and seeing "Death By Journalism?" (has our man Jesse Lee Petersen been doing anything lately? :-) or people are getting "Death By Journalism?" a lot more now for some reason.
Were those slaves in North Carolina, or spread about the slave states?
Y'know... when one studies up on how slavery really was in the Old South, they can't help but think that we, in modern America, are far more the slaves than anyone ever was in the 1800s.
I wouldn't go that far.
I'll have to check but I do know it was common in the more northerly slave states such as Virginia. Most common procedure was that the owner would sign a pass that the slave would take with him/her wherever they went, so that if they were stopped on the road they would be able to show that they had not run away (another reason why laws were on the books to keep slaves from knowing how to read/write: it's hard to counterfeit a pass when you don't know how to inscribe it).
With very rare exceptions, the slave always returned back to his/her owner.
Y'know... when one studies up on how slavery really was in the Old South, they can't help but think that we, in modern America, are far more the slaves than anyone ever was in the 1800s.
I wouldn't go that far.
A person in the 1850s would be told by his owner where to go, what to do, had no rights at the ballot box, was legally not entitled to own a firearm for self-protection, labored to provide for another who was not himself or his family... and we call that person "a slave."
A person in the early 21st Century is told by his government where to go, what to do, has his rights of free speech curtailed by "campaign finance reform" and other malarky, has people coming after him trying to take his gun away, labors for all his professional life only to see the largesse of his fruits go for the sustenance of the state with nothing vigorous for the return... and we call that person "free."
BTTT(#1 in Sales).
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Fine piece of writing, Darth.
And I'm heading over to Amazon for a buy.
I used to troll around North Cakalakie a lot, back in my days as an itinerate hack musician; got to become quite familiar some of those papers, too...I know exactly of what you speak.
And you're absolutely right:
"The Truth is, what it is...",
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