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What he did do was observe a rather unremarkable truth during his address to a schoolhouse in Uganda at the end of March: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Unlike the nebulous details of the Lewinsky scandal, everything Clinton spoke of at that point is factually accurate. Slavery did exist, and slavery was wrong. White Americans, as members of a governing body which sanctioned and exploited slavery, have intentionally benefited from the consequences. That is wrong as well...
...this is a better way, please show me how and for whom. As an economics student, I may have a "simplistic faith in the Truth of the market," but if that allows me to have faith in myself and exercise my freedom, then so be it. Maybe I've watched "Braveheart" too many times or have studied and respect the American Revolution too much, but it will be a cold day in hell before I willingly hand over my freedoms of labor, speech, religion and all that other stuff the Bill of Rights says to a government (of Johnsons...
Though Harlan's repudiation of our most cherished standards of reality ini- tially seems childishly reactionary, it is soonclear that her apparent inability to tell "truthfrom truth" is really a gift for discerning atruer truth as defined by her freely determinedindividual standards. At first, this rejection ofgenerally shared values seems an affront to thereader. Harlan's rejection of convention quicklybecomes understandable, though, as the narrativemakes clear that the common definitions of trueand untrue, right and wrong have only ever beenused to imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that...
Harlan's middle name is Truth, after Sojourner,and like her namesake, she returns to the site ofher imprisonment after discovering her own routeto freedom. Harlan is a faith healer, freeingpeople from their ailments by instilling in themfaith in the unbelievable. Just as GrandmotherJaboti was imprisoned by belief in her turtleshell, a Ms. Lee's sinus infection is healed byher faith in clear passages. While new definitionsof truth and untruth based on the randomexperiences of one ordinary woman take somegetting used to, the freedom that Harlan attainssimply by looking at the details of existence in adifferent way is both extraordinary...
Lidie's story opens, as mentioned earlier, with her father's death and a room full of well-mannered and safely-married sisters fretting over what is to become of the youngest child. "She ain't been properly taught's the truth," interjects one sister as Lidie eavesdrops with great irritation from an upstairs room. Only a few pages later, however, salvation arrives--in the tall, blonde from of Mr. Thomas Newton, who begins "courting" Lidie and whisks her off to Kansas Territory (referred to as "K.T." by most of the characters in the novel...