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All of this is good advice

Remember that it's Black History Month. Anything special for the black babies?

Coal for stockings!

-- Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:31 pm --

Oh right Christmas has past...umm

The possibilities are endless

The possibilities are endless but their enslavement shall not be.

-(Insert alternate joke about limited possibilities for Blacks, here.)-

Went too far?

Yes. One of my research interests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Turner



-- Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:28 pm --

Yeah yeah. I read the warning label. Just a momentary attack of conscience.

As you were

Blargh. Too much twisted humour for my poor fee fees.

Can't decide if I should piddle or go blind. Such a strange knot in my tummy. I'm not even all white and I think I'm choking on white guilt

I guess every nation has a...eermm...history of attempts at making the kiddies behave.

Are you a Rammstein fan today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHE-seRNpfc

I always loved the imagery in that vid. Remember when the slaves chased Louis and Lestat from their plantation? Something about the underground cage also reminds me of Schindler's list, and some of the footage from northern residential schools that have since been shut down. It also calls to mind some vaguely remembered, yet somehow compelling documentaries on insane asylums in the first few decades of the 20th c.