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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]Lost-in-FL
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I think we fail to see the point if we take this essay and make it a discussion that focuses a bit too much on race relationships. The race issue could be perhaps the only way she knows how to explain the world of her predicament and frustration with how the 'old system' of doing things in a capitalistic system of controling the populace by focusing privilege on the hands of few people refuses to die. I am growing increasingly convinced that schools are the new building blocks to the next slave/cheap labor force. Why? Because the US is beginning to run out of places from where to get that cheap labor from. Bad habits and memes are hard to destroy. We are a nation built by slaves and cheap labor, we do not know any other way of moving forward without exploiting others. Poor is the new black. Money is privilege and privilege is freedom. By manipulating the wealth of the individual (financial wealth, knowledge wealth, etc.) you are just manipulating freedom.
"If you teach that nigger (women, poor, LGBT, nonwhite minorities, people in the margins of society, etc.) how to read (be independent of the system, control their debt, make the right decisions, etc.), there will be no keeping him," Auld says. "It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master."