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Wednesday, July 24. 2013

Runaway Slave

The trailer of this revolutionary documentary:  



Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 15:56 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I was watching this lecture discussing institutions by contrasting their development in North America with that of South and Central America over at MRU on Development Economics.

Seems to me that the plantations system in the South had more in common with the elite/peasant system south of the border given the need for large enterprises using lots of unskilled labor. The South even suffered a degree of economic stagnation due to the hold over institutions but I think in the long run fares better due to the free flow of ideas inside the Union.

The other observation is the elite/peasant system's inherent need to keep the peasants uneducated. In the US, we broke this for a bit but in many ways the results of urban education, imposed more widely on African-Americans, seems to be designed to create a poor, illiterate population for exploitation by the elites. As they aren't really needed for labor, one can only speculate that the Dems (mostly) do this for political power?
#1 JKB on 2013-07-24 18:01 (Reply)
"Racist!" the term has evolved a new primary definition as the catch-word for "Hands Off My Poor People!"

The old primary definition is losing meaning and utility, as it is so often bowdlerized into any number of meanings, with no way of signaling which is which and when --that is, without an accompying photograph of the speaker and the spoken-to (IOW, a full context footnote --the very thing that language evolves in order to moot).
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-07-24 20:12 (Reply)
Great documentary - time to stop being scared of being called racist and time to start speaking the truth about Black Racism.
#2 NancyLee on 2013-07-25 01:07 (Reply)

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