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dKos has some scary stuff.

Cary Christian

Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.

"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.


Which makes one wonder what the, "Southern" side is? (pace to those readers from the South who take offense, this is the way they paint you, not the way I do).

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.


Makes me wonder what all those damned abolitionists were against?

Oh that's right, they were moralising do-gooders, and Puritans, who wanted to force a narrow interpretation of the Bible on the poor South. Heck, it's worse than that, they were liberals.






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Date: 2004-12-10 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com
Do I need to post some food porn about last night's supper? Not much to say, some steak, some red-leaf, with spinach; Potatoes with butter and chopped parsley (the extra of which I tossed into the salad) a loaf of bread (TJ's carries baked, but not finsished [which means it can be eaten without a quick trip to the oven, but it's better if you do] breads from Il Fornaio; restaurant/bakery. Great stuff, this was filone, sweetish, dense crumb, with medium eyes, and a chewy crust) and a sauce.

Sauce. Beef stock, dried montmorency cherries, healthy splash of Cab Sauv. white pepper, teaspoon of dried chanterelles; powdered, and (for 20 minutes) about 4 in of fresh rosemary.

Reduce by 1/3rd to 1/2, make a roux, thicken and dress the meat.


Did that help?

TK

Date: 2004-12-10 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com
You're a good soul.

I console myself with vegetarian dolmas and oolong.

It's just one of those days when I feel like I'm stanging on the siding watching a train wreck about to happen.

Date: 2004-12-10 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com
Hey, that's better than many of my days, when I think I'm on the train.

TK

Date: 2004-12-10 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sunfell.livejournal.com
You and me both.

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