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...speech, entitled, "The Bell Curve in Historical Context," was little more than a diatribe which sought to label Jews as the sole progenitors of racism-and later the slave trade-in Europe. The basis of his argument consisted of a portion of the Babylonian Talmud, a 2,000-year-old collection of religious writings, which contain a myth that describes Africans as a cursed people who are doomed to a history of servitude...
Martin then linked the slave trade to the Talmud by asserting a 1,500-year-old "Jewish monopoly" on racist ideas that began with the Talmud and continued until the advent of Black slavery. According to Martin, the Jewish people carefully nurtured these racist ideas for a millennium and a half until the rest of Europe decided to join...
Martin says the earliest version of the Hamitic Myth can be found in the Talmud, a 2000-year-old collection of Jewish religious writings. The professor then jumps 1,500 years into the future and argues that the myth led to the horrors of the slave trade...
Tell that to Rachel, 19, an Irish au pair who felt like a slave while working for a family in Manhattan. Rachel found herself cleaning out the refrigerator, washing Venetian blinds, even scrubbing old stains from the living room rug. Those specialty services were layered on top of her daily responsibilities: minding the family's three children, washing the dishes, vacuuming. Moreover, Rachel says because there was never enough to eat in the house, she shelled out about $35 each week to keep herself and the children adequately fed. Rachel hung on eight months, then bolted. "I finally realized...
...movie, which does have a sort of cheeky energy, goes into narrative and cliche overload once the spacemen start exploring the unnamed planet -- Shall we call it Lucasland? -- where they set down. There's a slave population to be freed, a tyrant to be deposed, some cheapish special effects to put on display, and a lot of problems about getting safely back to Earth to solve. Tying all this together, Stargate stumbles to a hasty, muddled ending instead of soaring to a conclusion worthy of the only thing that's first rate about it -- its sources...