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?"
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Feb 01, 2007 10:57:20 am PST #3717 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pix - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:53 am PST #3718 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
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.
juliana - Feb 01, 2007 11:01:53 am PST #3719 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
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.
Laga - Feb 01, 2007 11:05:20 am PST #3720 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
IOatmealN I have discovered that it is tasty with blueberries but if you put them in too soon they go all 'splodey.
Pix - Feb 01, 2007 11:08:58 am PST #3721 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Scrappy - Feb 01, 2007 11:13:42 am PST #3722 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"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.
Laga - Feb 01, 2007 11:13:43 am PST #3723 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Aims - Feb 01, 2007 11:16:14 am PST #3724 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Well, that's a way different question than what IS slavery.
Most definitely. These other snippets of conversation came from the evolving of the discussion in class.
Fred Pete - Feb 01, 2007 11:18:10 am PST #3725 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
that's a way different question than what IS slavery
But "what is slavery?" remains relevant. (See above comments on Jim Crow.)
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2007 11:34:41 am PST #3726 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No one was owned in Jim Crow, Fred, so I (admittedly vague on some details of American history) don't see the parallels.