Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00580)

Bart
There are more forms of slavery than ownership.
The negroes may have gotten their freedom from ownership, but in its place, they got underpaid work- if they could get any at all, they had to live in slums or shacks, they were not offered any form of education, they were abused, isolated and sent to prison for white men's crimes. The whip was still there, but it took a different form. They were free but there freedom was on the lowest rung of the ladder of white society and were kept there for many years after the Civil War freed them. Only when the lady sat on the bus (sorry but I cant, but should remember her name) did she truly stand up for freedom and say, I am equal. I am free to sit wherever the hell I like.

Regards
Cass 

Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com> wrote:

Cass Silva wrote:
> If Slavery was abolished why did she need to sit on the bus so many
> years after the Civil War? 

Because she didn't want to stand?

OK, to answer the question I THINK you're asking, how is having to sit 
at the back of the bus slavery? (note I am NOT asking how it is wrong, 
just how it is slavery).

Bart





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