Re: Theos-World judging the past by modern-day standards
Jan 19, 2005 07:02 PM
by Cass Silva
Who would be silly enough to call a Tail a leg? Even a blind man would know the difference.
Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com> wrote:
Cass Silva wrote:
> 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.
Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Bart
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