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...Lewinsky immunity. Although Lewinsky's attorneys have vowed to appeal, legal experts believe she has no grounds until she's actually appeared before Starr's grand jury and been found in contempt. "That would mean she may have to sit in jail pending the appeal," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak...
Source: SCIENCE; Hoffman And Novak, Vanderbilt...
...subsequent weeks, we have seen conservatives making the talk show circuits and publishing editorials berating Clinton for his comments in Uganda. Conservative Robert Novak is upset not just because America did nothing wrong, but because in his warped view, slavery was something right. After noting some prominent black Americans, Novak arrogantly said that "if it hadn't been for slavery, they wouldn't even be in America, would they?" Pat Buchanan seems to be in denial about the horrors of slavery, remarking in his syndicated column that "America deserves better than to have Clinton romping around sub-Saharan Africa, counting...
...these ideas, Novak's suggestion that the black people of this country ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...
...success of blacks today speaks to anything, it is to their own genius, strength and amazing grace, not to what Novak seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist...