Rule One, Tep! You forgot Rule One!

The who with the what, now?

Um, we don't talk about Fight Naked Club?

I really dislike this. Not that it's not a valid choice of framing for a discussion, but just because I think it happens enough that people think of it as the slavery, instead of one instance of slavery.

And framing it that way also puts slavery firmly in the past ignoring it as a current problem.

And what's really funny (not "haha" funny) about that is that the discussion question is "How did slavery cause evolution in "White" and "Black" America?"

Everyone needs to take African American history and literature. It's amazing how little most people know, not to mention how much misinformation they think they know. I miss teaching AA Lit so much.

The who with the what, now?

Um, we don't talk about Fight Naked Club?

Perzactly.

Everyone needs to take African American history and literature.

Instead of taking African American Lit, I took African American Theatre & Its History. It was made of awesome.

IOatmealN I have discovered that it is tasty with blueberries but if you put them in too soon they go all 'splodey.

Juliana, that works too. I just wish more people understood, say, the conflict in America over "authentic" AA voice. Understanding the roots of the debate between the Booker T. Washington school of thought in the late 1890's and W.E.B. DuBois' views in the teens and 20's makes so much of the cultural divide within, for instance, the entertainment industry today (i.e. Bill Cosby vs. Wanda Sykes).

I'm really going back to grading Lord of the Flies essays now, I swear.

"How did slavery cause evolution in "White" and "Black" America?"

Well, that's a way different question than what IS slavery. In it, the term slavery obvously refers to "our" slavery. However, that doesn't mean our version of slavery defines what slavery is.