6164 week 6 I can't think of a title

Ok I know this may seem a long shot but what about the famous scene in Roots. LeVar 

Burton is being whipped because he won’t relinquish his identity as Kunta Kinte.  It churns our 

stomachs because there is so much wrong/evil going on. And at its core it is a story of 

oppression.   Stripping people of their humanity for economic gain. Didn’t we read a thing 

about oppressors do themselves a disservice because they have to convince themselves that 

those they are oppressing are not human….I feel like we did.

This is not going the way I thought it would. Because I can think of no way to go back in time 

and teach people that slavery is at the top of the evil scale.  

I have heard throughout my life that people need to “get over” slavery. This is such crap.  It is 

unreasonable to expect people to detach themselves from their history. It is a part of who they 

are. Who we are as Americans. [of the United States] and Yes this concept of keeping those 

different from us (could be skin color or religion or class or whatever) infiltrates our world 

today. We read about school tracking and self fulfilling prophecies….so much of our modern 

inequities are related to past ones.