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I hear them call the tide
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Washington Post columnist watches "12 Years a Slave", and is surprised to discover that slavery was brutal:
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But the other part is that he's not fresh out of that horrible primary education. He's a Washington Post columnist with pure white hair. How could he have made it to his age, in the journalism field, and still have to unlearn THAT? I guess there are plenty of people his age who hang on to that view, but still.
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He was brave to admit it.
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#2420 |
The Un-Tuckian
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Willful ignorance.
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A friend of mine moved to Texas from Pennsylvania in the middle of high school, and due to the differences between the two states' curriculum layout, she ended up having to retake several subjects.
She was utterly flabbergasted at how differently the Civil War was presented in the north vs. the south. And ours was a pretty liberal high school in the middle of a liberal city--certainly no one tried to justify slavery to us the way the Washington Post writer describes experiencing several decades earlier. Nonetheless, from what she told us it was still taught vastly differently in our part of the country. |
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#2422 |
I hear them call the tide
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A white kids from South Africa moved to my school in the UK when he was about 15. He was astounded to learn we all thought apartheid was evil and that there were sanctions against SA because of it. He thought without white governance, the blacks would all be savages and apartheid was better for both races. Other than that, he was a nice kid
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Wasn't it here that someone was saying, they went to China and wanted to visit Tiananmen Square, and their Chinese hosts were first confused as to why this traveller would even know the name of such an insignificant plaza, and then were really blown away to learn that in the Western world it was considered the site of a major historical tragedy.
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Read in the weekly wipe obits about a lady that lived her entire adult life in ___, MS.
Working for _____. Then 30 years for _______. Folks, that's what is called a productive life.
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The !@#$%^ Ducks again http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...l#incart_river
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I hear them call the tide
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