Weird News

[Happy Monkey]

Washington Post columnist watches "12 Years a Slave", and is surprised to discover that slavery was brutal:

I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life.
...
slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks. Slavery was a lifetime’s condemnation to an often violent hell in which people were deprived of life, liberty and, too often, their own children. Happiness could not be pursued after that.

Part of the story is in what a (probably deliberately) horrible job the school he describes did when describing slavery.

But the other part is that he's not fresh out of that horrible primary education. He's a Washington Post columnist with pure white hair. How could he have made it to his age, in the journalism field, and still have to unlearn THAT?

I guess there are plenty of people his age who hang on to that view, but still.

[glatt]

He was brave to admit it.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Washington Post columnist watches "12 Years a Slave", and is surprised to discover that slavery was brutal:

He's back:

Originally Posted by WTF Richard Cohen

People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.

He writes these things from the perspective of someone stepping out of that mindset, but he's not out yet.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

He's back:
He writes these things from the perspective of someone stepping out of that mindset, but he's not out yet.

A biracial couple, having mixed race children. What a concept!

You'd think that the kids were half-elephant or alligator, or something.

Over the course of a lot of decades, I've learned that once you step into the doors of the "Stupid Market" - there's no shortage of stock on the shelves.

[Lamplighter]

... had not heard that one before !

[Molasar]

Originally Posted by Adak

...I've learned that once you step into the doors of the "Stupid Market" - there's no shortage of stock on the shelves.

I'm gonna wait 'til the dust settles then I'll be stealing that for a sig.