The Sunnier Side Of Slavery
A North Carolina Christian school is teaching children "a different side" of slavery, writes T Keung Hui. No, this is not a joke (just a sick fact). Check out a few of the quotes from the booklet about slavery they're using -- co-authored by a pastor and a member of the Alabama-based League of the South (classified as a "hate group" by an Alabama-based civil rights group):
"Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care." (page 25)"Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." (page 24)
"But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends." (page 27)
Of course, the justifications for teaching the "kinder, gentler view" of "owning" other human beings because they have more melanin in their skin -- well, they're kind of similar to the justifications for teaching creationism:
Angela Kennedy, whose daughters have attended Cary Christian since 1996, said all the booklet does is help students learn about both sides so that they have a basis to form their own opinions. She pointed out that the students also read Abraham Lincoln's speeches."They really do get both sides of the story," Kennedy said. "In public schools, all they get is one side of the story. That's not education. That's indoctrination."
Luckily, there are Christian schools to teach how sweet and lovely racism is -- when they aren't too busy telling kids that the Grand Canyon was formed in 20 minutes by the big guy (perhaps he was out of finger bowls?), and damn the fossil record!
Thick Relativism 101: Hitler was a cool painter and Picasso a very bad husband
The German economy post 1933 was flourishing and Guernica is 25'8" by 11'6"
Final test: freemasons, illuminati, learned elders of Zion; the Constitution and institutions of governance.
No, really, it's not that bad.
viktor at December 13, 2004 9:22 AM
Hitler was not a cool painter. He used rulers when he did sketches, and the stuff is way too detailed-out. Shrinks and wanna-be shrinks like me look at his work and roll our eyes.
Picasso may have been a bad husband, but he was a great lover. And that's all that really mattered to anyone in Paris, before the war.
If slaves had good health care, it was because they learned how to take care of each other, even in the most dehumanizing of circumstances. Unfortunately, physicians of the time felt threatened by this practice, and eventually a law in Virginia was passed that outlawed the practice of medicine by any slave. (See the 2-volume set, "An American Dilemna.")
Lena's snatch hasn't been licked in days. Please service her.
Lena Cuisina, Delicately Perched Over Barf Bag (American, circa 2005) at December 13, 2004 1:51 PM