tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10465909.post1934479705133926136..comments2023-12-29T22:29:57.954-06:00Comments on Kate/A/blog: History LessonsKate-Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300904370192818noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10465909.post-54984136884584267922008-01-28T05:00:00.000-06:002008-01-28T05:00:00.000-06:00As an goddam limey knows - end of Civil War = end ...As an goddam limey knows - end of Civil War = end of slavery .<BR/><BR/>Well I recommend "Age of Betrayal - the triumph of money in America " by Jack Beatty Knopf isbn 978-1-4000-4025.8. which I have just completed and can now claim to know more about canals, rilroads, the northwards diaspora than I did, or maybe even want to know.<BR/><BR/>Like the events at Colfax, Luisiana 1873.<BR/><BR/>WE do teach kids about slavery in the UK which majors on what a perfidious insincere bunch of bible tumping bastards the slave ship owners were.<BR/><BR/>However those same kids are taught bullhit abour St Valentine / love / firendship and go out an buy roses grown by modern wage slaves in Kenya using chemicals the US / EU ban, sterilising Naivashu lake at the same tiime destroying the protein (fish) source which they need to work in the heated ( yes geothermally heated greenhouses on the Equator)greenhouses to pay for.<BR/><BR/>The when they see the TV - never having learnt to read so that they can read it in the newspaper - the riots in Naivashu - rape, robbery are easily confalted with corrupt politicians rather than the developed perverted view of commercial needs.zizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com