TEST ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY

[Aliantha]

I enjoyed The Bluest Eye. It changed my perception in some ways...many ways in fact.

So , the Aussies and Brits read Toni , but not Americans like xoxoxoxBruce ?

[Aliantha]

I'd say there'd be plenty of Americans who read Toni Morrison. Maybe they're just not here...or not saying so for whatever reason they think is valid.

yer reckon ?

[Aliantha]

It's possible. After all, you're not very kind with some of your comments buddug. It doesn't help promote reasonable discussion.

One has to be a counterpoint , and hell , I only weigh 60 kilos .

I am far from mattering .

[KinkyVixen]

I own books by Toni Morrison, not that it would matter...you can't have an opinion around here w/o someone completey belittling you or ripping you a new one... so I pick my battles. The end.

Maybe your choice of pick is limited by your upbringing ? Perhaps you should exchange your pick for a J.C.B. ?

[BobT]

Originally Posted by Buddug

This is the subject of a great many Hollywood films .

do you get all of your history from hollywood fims? btw...did i do enough of your assignment on slavery or do you need more infomation to do YOUR WORK? you would do better in school if you did your own assignments and didn't rely on others to do your homework, and HOLLYWOOD for your history.
your anger at the world is obvious. once you learn to control it you will do better in other areas of your life.......get a grip.

[capnhowdy]

I missed a peice of this thread somehow regretfully. Otherwise I could have told buttplug to kiss my ass sooner.

Being angry at the world/thyself warrants not the lashing out.... You may be a slave to your own subconcious queries.

You seem to be real sharp. Don't lose your peripheral insight. There's a whole world turning around you that you and I both can learn from.

And who said any goddam thing about 'nam, any/f/way? sheesh....

[Cicero]

[quote=BobT]I took a course in collge from a world renound economist, Stanley Engerman. the results of the research he conducted with his associate Robert Fogel eaned Fogel the nobel prize in economics. their work concluded:

Yes you must have!!! I can tell by your punctuation and grammar.

[BobT]

i was told that spelling, punctuation and grammar didn't count. only the thought counted.

[footfootfoot]

read a lot of toni morrison when I was into banging dykes, you needed to know the right stuff to say to them to get them to spread.

After I gave that (banging dykes) up I could go back to the more highbrow stuff, ya know. Henry James, Wharton, Naipaul, Achebe. you get the picture. Assuming you are educated...

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I'd say there'd be plenty of Americans who read Toni Morrison. Maybe they're just not here...or not saying so for whatever reason they think is valid.

Yes, many Americans read Tony Morrison.

Mr. Buddig, if you wish to broaden your understanding of American slacery and why slavery anywhere is always wrong, I suggest you read the words of a speech given by an illiterate black womn who was raised as a slave. She gave the speech some time in the late 1790's.

Originally Posted by Soujourner Truth

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

I suggest you send Ms. Sojourner Truth your bottle of rum. She summed up your question well. Or better yet, take the money you would have used on the rum and donate to it a civil rights group here in the US.

[footfootfoot]

psst, Mari. "mr." buddug claims to be named 'Anna" and presumably is sporting neither twigs nor berries, not to mention she lives under a bridge... if you get my drift....