(February 29, 2016 at 11:47 pm)Rhythm Wrote: He also seems to think that his family narrative as being part of the oppressed is unique, that it gives him special insight. Perhaps he doesn't understand that many of us have share croppers in our families, in living memory, at the least...and yet we still manage to see why this, in addition to slavery, was both wrong and unnecessary. That it was exploitation.
I don't have share croppers, but I do have jews. I've always been reminded of the fact, because there's next to no extended family since 1945.