Thursday, December 09, 2004
This Is The Modern World.
Isn't it comforting to know that there are still folks who want to live in a pre-Civil Rights America? You have to hand it to the historical revisionists, who always seem to be fundamentalist Christians, for making slavery seem like a dream vacation. What is wrong with the water down there?
Via Atrios:
School defends slavery booklet
Critic says text is 'window dressing'
By T. KEUNG HUI, Staff Writer
Students at one of the area's largest Christian schools are reading a controversial booklet that critics say whitewashes Southern slavery with its view that slaves lived "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures."
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.
Complete Story Here
Via Atrios:
School defends slavery booklet
Critic says text is 'window dressing'
By T. KEUNG HUI, Staff Writer
Students at one of the area's largest Christian schools are reading a controversial booklet that critics say whitewashes Southern slavery with its view that slaves lived "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures."
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.
Complete Story Here
