I dunno. I like the idea of a "white" apology for slavery very much, but I was distressed reading the story with an ad rating women's legs on the same page. The flesh trade seems all too alive and persistent . . .
At any rate, Barbados both promoted and resisted (?) the slave trade. The same story is on the AP "mainstream" media coverage as that provided by BlackPlanet. Link passed on by Tee on the social justice listserv.
Why do so many brilliant people kill themselves? The novel, Being There, turned into a motion picture, was mentioned in Briankle's class last week. Jerzy Kosinski sounds downright miserable, for all the pleasures he seems to have wrestled out of life. His motto is one I could live by - paradoxically enough.
I was looking for something called "The One Who is Standing Beside Me", a.k.a (in French) as "The One Who is Not Accompanying Me". No luck. The Painted Bird sounds grim as hell. As does most of his work, which appears to consistently tackle life at its potential worst.
Unesco has posted the text with a brief historical account.
the Preamble declares:
"[T]his Declaration takes language communities and not states as its point of departure and is to be viewed in the context of the reinforcement of international institutions capable of guaranteeing sustainable and equitable development for the whole of humanity. For these reasons also it aims to encourage the creation of a political framework for linguistic diversity based upon respect, harmonious coexistence and mutual benefit."
Carlos selected this quote out of G.W.'s October 6 speech and sent it to the social justice listserv:
"Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must
be taken very seriously -- and we must stop them before their crimes
can multiply."
President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy
