Comments on: Afro-Iraqis http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/afro-iraqis Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rhythm http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/afro-iraqis/comment-page-1#comment-1002 rhythm Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:43:32 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/07/14/afro-iraqis/#comment-1002 it's very dangerous to dismiss the notion of "'master' coming into the woodshed this very night," because he does. just because the occurence isn't literal, doesn't mean it's the paranoia of (as you put it) small minded people. the objectives of american slavery are still very present and very real today...only the m.o. has changed. it’s very dangerous to dismiss the notion of “‘master’ coming into the woodshed this very night,” because he does. just because the occurence isn’t literal, doesn’t mean it’s the paranoia of (as you put it) small minded people. the objectives of american slavery are still very present and very real today…only the m.o. has changed.

]]> By: BeeJigity http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/afro-iraqis/comment-page-1#comment-1001 BeeJigity Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:18:49 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/07/14/afro-iraqis/#comment-1001 Stories like this are interesting to me as an American because I hear so many who want to label America as th worse place that has ever been because of slavery. Those same people don't take into account the fact that slavery has been a practice (as disgusting and inhumane as it is) throughout most of mankind. The US has come to a point where it has ended, and small minded people want to hold on to it as if we worried about an arbitrary and uniquely evil "master" coming into the woodshed this very night. Stories like this are interesting to me as an American because I hear so many who want to label America as th worse place that has ever been because of slavery. Those same people don’t take into account the fact that slavery has been a practice (as disgusting and inhumane as it is) throughout most of mankind.

The US has come to a point where it has ended, and small minded people want to hold on to it as if we worried about an arbitrary and uniquely evil “master” coming into the woodshed this very night.

]]> By: rhythm http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/afro-iraqis/comment-page-1#comment-1000 rhythm Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:57:27 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/07/14/afro-iraqis/#comment-1000 wow. such a poignant piece. and such a reflection of what's happening and has happened in America for years. her struggle to hold on to a heritage so beautiful in a world where only remnants of it are left seems bittersweet. it feels so much like the struggle many of us have between being African and being American...because sadly--rather, fortunately--we can never wholly be either. wow. such a poignant piece. and such a reflection of what’s happening and has happened in America for years. her struggle to hold on to a heritage so beautiful in a world where only remnants of it are left seems bittersweet. it feels so much like the struggle many of us have between being African and being American…because sadly–rather, fortunately–we can never wholly be either.

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