tina (tls@ziplink.net)
Sat, 05 Feb 2000 00:01:09 -0500
At 07:52 PM 2/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Are we in the business of building alternatives and optimizing them to our
>ideals, or are we in the business of "freeing the educational system".
>
>I would suggest that the best way to achieve the latter is to focus on the
>former. A lot of valuable energy can be wasted in the abstract.
I couldn't agree with you more. Step by step is perhaps not radical, but I
feel it's both necessary and desirable.
>> Was it better to starve to death but be free? Quite likely, but it wasn't
>> necessary.
>
>I would honestly like to know what you mean when you say it wasn't
>necessary. I'm guessing, and I'd rather hear your words.
The North failed to help rebuild the South or to provide any assistance in
helping the newly freed slaves to assimilate into society. Doing either or
both of those things would have helped alleviate the widespread poverty that
existed in the South for many years following the war. Many people were
left with no means of supporting themselves (no work skills and/or no
available jobs). The South was largely agricultural and the large-scale
destruction of land and crops led to shortages of food.
If food is scarce and you have no means of attaining it, you starve.
Would I rather starve to death than be a slave? I can't really say for
sure, but I know I'd rather not be a slaveand not starve to death.
T.
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