Word: slave
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Aristotle was a great thinker. But I'm not sure his ideas about homosexuality are particularly relevant to modern American society. They're certainly no more relevant than his ideas about slavery: "A slave is a particular species of property..." (The Politics, Chapter VIII) Or his ideas about women: "the male is by nature superior to the female..." (The Politics, Chapter...
...blacks trying to come to grips with the name of the school, Thomas Jefferson. There were some who thought Jefferson was probably one of the greatest Americans; they ought to be very proud to be part of a school that bears his name. Others said, Thomas Jefferson kept slaves. How can you have any pride in yourself as a young black American while being part of a school that bears the name of a slave owner...
...extremely insulted that Abrams suggests that we disassociate ourselves from people who have a message for us, even if a small portion of that message may be offensive to him. After all, do Americans fail to honor Thomas Jefferson and George Washington because they were slave owners? And are Americans "out-raged" or "embarrassed and shocked" by the statements of such celebrated individuals as David Hume, who wrote, "I'm apt to suspect the negroes...to be naturally inferior to whites," or Immanuel Kant, who wrote, "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling...
Metallica is not the only band turning heavy metal into pure platinum. Skid Row's latest, Slave to the Grind, has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide since last June. Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge entered the charts 13 weeks ago at No. 1 and sold 2 million copies in less than a month. Poison's past three albums, Look What the Cat Dragged Down, Open Up and Say Ahh and Flesh and Blood, have sold a combined total of 12 million copies; all five of Motley Crue's have sold more than 1 million each...
...church choirs before finding his true calling in the Toronto club scene. "In the '70s pop was more hip, and now the energy of punk has come into heavy metal. Punk was a socialist thing, and metal was a capitalism thing." Yet both are sneeringly anti-Establishment. In Slave to the Grind, Skid Row proclaims, "Can't be the king of the world/ If you're slave to the grind/ Tear down the rat racial slime...