tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post6043037464788789984..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Samuel Morse 2Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-46388470484374586792009-10-27T22:01:28.660-04:002009-10-27T22:01:28.660-04:00You're right just ventingYou're right just ventingGregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-22095020640364664222009-10-26T22:12:14.068-04:002009-10-26T22:12:14.068-04:00'My Bondage My Freedom' by Frederick Dougl...'My Bondage My Freedom' by Frederick Douglass chronicles everything Stapleton mentions from Douglass's first hand experience. It is a powerful reminder how bigoted and cruel people can be to others they deem different or inferior. And like Stapleton says our age has its own share of horrors it commits.armandcabrerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772142818316748471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-53372918312028975132009-10-26T18:58:38.694-04:002009-10-26T18:58:38.694-04:00Gregory:
It sounds like you need a new job to me.
...Gregory:<br />It sounds like you need a new job to me.<br />You will have a hard time convincing me that it is impossible to walk away from the job though. I got filtered through a lot of thin times for doing it, but I HAVE done it. Many others have as well. I felt exploited by employment, but no one sold my children out of the family, chased me down with dogs or cut off one of my feet when they caught me. My boss didn't count my children as his possessions,and I have never worn leg irons or been whipped.<br />I would have to say that although I disliked employment I never felt my plight was the equal of slavery.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-6598432488852285232009-10-26T18:49:53.251-04:002009-10-26T18:49:53.251-04:00Jeremy:
You have no doubt run into that argument ...Jeremy:<br /><br />You have no doubt run into that argument before and I have simplified it for brevity. It is found at the link I have posted. <br />.,.............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-3691920464658035152009-10-26T18:48:27.410-04:002009-10-26T18:48:27.410-04:00Armand:
Thanks,
There was certainly plenty of cr...Armand:<br /><br />Thanks, <br />There was certainly plenty of cruelty and bigotry then and now,<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-66942176322727065082009-10-26T15:36:00.363-04:002009-10-26T15:36:00.363-04:00Has slavery really come to an end though or has it...Has slavery really come to an end though or has it merely changed forms?<br />What if every blue collar worker decided to stay home for one week and refused to buy sell or trade anything during that week. How long would it take the government to force us back to work at gunpoint? Isn't that what Bush did to the UPS workers on strike not long ago?<br />I think slavery is still with us. We're told we have the freedom to find other employment if our current employer is not satisfactory but who would put that on a resume. Changing jobs is only competitive within a margin. <br />Sure people are paid to work but even slaves had to eat. <br />Corporations and employees look very similar to owners and slaves. Sometimes I think we are kidding ourselves.Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-5202217964462606192009-10-26T13:20:59.435-04:002009-10-26T13:20:59.435-04:00Morse could definitely be accused of historical sh...Morse could definitely be accused of historical shortsightedness, since he looked at the slavery of his era and compared it to that of ancient Greece and Judea. The two systems were vastly different.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-64191089656473184892009-10-26T01:56:53.071-04:002009-10-26T01:56:53.071-04:00Stapleton great post.
Your comments make me think...Stapleton great post. <br />Your comments make me think of the other kind of person who wishes to return to those times. They see them as more wholesome and moral than our current society. Of course ignoring all the cruelty ,bigotry and ignorance of those days.armandcabrerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772142818316748471noreply@blogger.com