Alison Samuels says, "African-Americans are the only group of once-enslaved people who continued to live in the area where their ancestors were held in shackles. That creates a unique and tense dynamic for this country that is too often dismissed and misunderstood." Only group of "once-enslaved [black] people" in USA are living as free men and women alongside group of "once-enslaved" white people. Few Jews live in Egypt where they were "once-enslaved," having been killed off or chased away. Jews in Germany were slaves and killed in concentration camps. Jewish civilians live in Germany now. Today in USA black Americans get rewards without suffering any harms. White Americans are punished for doing no wrong. Where is that discussed? She also says, "We live in a world where anyone can say whatever they please to anyone they please on the Internet and it isn’t always warm, friendly, or nice." Online is not quite the wild west. Many periodicals no longer allow comments. Others censor words "that may offend some person." The concept of free speech was a tradition for 1200 years in Ancient Athens with no law or constitutional provisions. The idea was to protect speech that some people hated. Not so in USA any more.
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African-Americans are the only group of once-enslaved people who continued to live in the area where their ancestors were held in shackles.
That creates a unique and tense dynamic for this country that is too often dismissed and misunderstood.
[. . .]
We live in a world where anyone can say whatever they please to anyone they please on the Internet and it isn’t always warm, friendly, or nice.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/31/piers-morgan-vs-toure-how-the-cnn-host-blew-it.html
FIGHTING WORDS
Piers Morgan Vs. Touré: How the CNN Host Blew It
Alison Samuels
Daily Beast
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