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...Modern-day Ghana is experiencing what some historians call a “culture of silence” with regards to slavery. The unspoken anxiety between Ghanaians and descendants of survivors of the African Diaspora springs from the fact that most African slaves were sold into slavery by other Africans, the descendants of whom still live in Africa. If black Americans travel to Ghana expecting—at least to some degree—a homecoming, they might be surprised by many Ghanaians’ unwillingness to talk about the not-so-distant past. Even among Ghanaians, the issue...
...Atlantic crossing today resonates because of the modern voyage’s juxtaposition with the most famous Atlantic passage: the voyage of African slaves to the “New World.” That trip was a spiritual, emotional, and physical death for many of its passengers, and its goal was to sever Africans’ ties with their former lives and render them vulnerable at the hands of Europeans. Now, the journey could not be more different: it is easy, fast, and completely voluntary. Only several accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspectives of the enslaved exist...
...seems tremendously unfair that one can fly to Africa, study slavery for six weeks, and jet home. From a privileged vantage point, modern students are trying to extract the stories of people who weren’t allowed to speak. Unfortunately, at at every moment there is the constant reminder that their stories are up against an ocean crossing whose purpose was to deprive them of a history and rob them of a future...
...With the modern tools of niche marketing, Obama might be able to punish McCain for his pork-busting, not only by highlighting his general opposition to farm subsidies in farm country, but also by highlighting his specific opposition to Youngstown State's engineering program, Youngstown Air Reserve Station's logistics facility, the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown's HIV/AIDs Ministry and Youngstown's sewage overflow project. When it comes to sewage overflows, most Youngstown residents probably agree with what Palin told Gibson: "It's not inappropriate for a mayor or a governor to request and work with their Congressmen, their Congresswomen...
...Over time, evil has lost much of its aesthetic appeal. Society has learned to distinguish between admiration for art and abhorrence of the artist’s moral shortcomings. If anything, we now succumb to the opposite temptation. Mediocre writers like Solzhenitsyn are spuriously aggrandized for their reputations as modern-day saints. The case of George Orwell provides a useful counterpart. An ultra-earnest author of wooden allegories, Orwell wrote clumsy prose with little grasp of character or style. But he had the moral lucidity to write passionately and unequivocally about the definitive issue of his time: the unmitigated evils...