syrinx

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/63858/

Polemic in reference to Michael Medved's "Inconvenient Truths" regarding slavery and why the US brand of slavery was only following a rich Greco-Roman civilization/cultural heritage. Only thing missing was Barbara Bush's comment about Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston football stadium indicating that most of them were underprivileged, so this was working out well for them. Although the argument that African slaves benefited from their exposure to Western civilization was put forth by Medved....

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