Date Posted:10:24:41 02/09/06 Thu Author: lump Subject: Re: grammy In reply to:
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's message, "grammy" on 06:05:22 02/09/06 Thu
23: Slave codes is just a fancy name for the unwritten way that the plantation owners conducted their slaves. Like a code of conduct towards and for slaves.
It is sad how little African Americans can find about their heritage. Another black history subject that absolutely fascinates me is the freed slaves in Louisiana. Feast of All Saints is a great fiction account of what life was like for them, but there's real history to it too. That's why when people were saying "F New Orleans - don't rebuild" I was screaming that we'd loose all that history. Really interesting - there were so many real dynamic characters in that time!
Genetics and family history is always interesting! I'm 1/2 English, 1/4 Austrian and 1/4 Hungarian. The Hungarians (beet farmers) bought tickets to ride over in the Titanic (probably on the lower deck with the rest of the poor people) but were turned away as the Titanic was full. Luckily, they went down to France and caught another boat over. I think the fate part of stories like that is so interesting. If they'd have got on that boat - which they probably really wanted to - the world would be missing 4 generations already of that family!
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Re: grammy -- stillreign, 10:34:19 02/09/06 Thu [1]
I missed most of the show because I didn't want to miss lost.
I did see the first hour or so. The U2 and Mary J. Blidge match-up was not so thrilling to me. I actually think she's got a nice voice, but the woman couldn't rock if you sent her to school for it. Oh well.
I did like the little bit of Alicia Keys singing with Stevie Wonder. She kept calling him Mr. Wonder it was so cute.
I wish I could have seen Sly, cause they are one of my all time favorite bands since childhood.
Basically just a bunch of laws that dehumanized groups of people so it was ok to them take advantage of them. They weren't human they were live stock. And were not Christian.
Most blacks are not purely of African decent at this point, but that started in days of slavery. It's ok to sneak in and rape the live stock from time to time.
