Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JIMMY ("The Greek") SNYDER, 76, odds maker and garrulous gridiron gossip on television's The N.F.L. Today benched in 1988 for attributing black athletic excellence to slave breeding; in Las Vegas, Nevada...
Kilson places the burden of his "reciprocity imperative" on "White Southerners in particular and White Americans in general." He groups together everyone from the most offensive slave-owners to Jim Crow racists to their descendants to anyone of European ancestry living in the South or holding U.S. citizenship. This group identification is stereotyping, to put it euphemistically...
...would also like to take issue with Mr. Brown's generalization that all Southern gentlemen were merely rapists and "craven degenerate[s]." Though it might be painful for the righteous to admit, our nation's father, George Washington, was a slave owner, as were Thomas Jefferson and numerous other prestigious Americans. Their greatness does not legitimize the fact that they owned slaves, but that ownership does not make them degenerate rapists. I also though that it was a bit presumptuous of Mr. Brown to call two sitting United States Senators "jabbering Neanderthals." Lord knows that many people disagree with...
...represents the courage and sacrifice of men who fought and died to protect their home, their family, their state and the belief in honor. My great-great-grandfather lost his arm fighting under that flag, not to protect slavery for he was too poor to even consider owning a slave, but to protect what he understood to be the rights extended to his state by the Constitution...
...Hepatitis decides on an ending and the play is performed. Hepatitis' play, complete with a Greek chorus similar to that in Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite," echoes the philosophical style as the actual play. This time, though, the debate is on the pros and cons of freedom: should a slave give up being taken care of for the "dangerous" freedom, and the responsibility of, one's actions...