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...Slave trade was like cocaine is now -- even though it was against the law, that didn't stop anybody. Imagine getting $1,000 for a human being. That's a lot of money. There are fortunes in this country that were made that...
...torturous restraining devices became a hook on which to say what it was like in personal terms. I knew about them because slaves who wrote about their lives mentioned them, and white people wrote about them. There's a wonderful diary of the Burr family in which he talks about his daily life and says, "Put the bit on Jenny today." He says that about 19 times in six months -- and he was presumably an enlightened slave owner. Slave-ship captains also wrote a lot of memoirs, so it's heavily documented...
Into this vacuum the circuits of popular culture transmit images of brutality without consequences. Children play video games in which they win points for killing the most people. They watch violence-packed cartoons. They listen to songs titled Be My Slave and Scumkill. Or they are baby-sat by vastly popular movie videotapes like Splatter University and I Spit on Your Grave. Says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Wheelock College in Boston: "What we are doing is training a whole generation of male kids to see sex and violence as inextricably linked...
...regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...
...still a country of class struggle," wrote historian Claude Mazauric in the Communist Party newspaper L'Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect...