On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 20:44, Michael Perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually agree with Ragu, even when he disagrees with me. My only point > was that we sometimes get swept up with bad ideas that we cannot see > through.
Agreed: what would you think of a program which advocated the deportation of all African Americans? It sounds a little racist, eh? Well that was one of the big abolitionist ideas--free the slaves and send them back to Africa where they can have their own country (Liberia). IIRC, it was actually the plan that Harriet Beecher Stowe puts forward as the supposedly genius conclusion to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Bad Idea: Good people. No? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
