Examining Our Nation's Story

Examining Our Nation’s Story

 

I thank Warren Jones for sharing this documentation of principled historical scholarship.  The interview with Craig Steven Wilder encourages critical reflection on enslavement, education, and Christianity in American colonial history.  In addition, Wilder’s work invites a troubling but very necessary question:  are some aspects of 21^st century American culture disguised continuations of habits of thought and action forged in the 17^th and 18^th centuries?  Despite the ample evidence of progressive change in our nation, we are still obligated to ask how much of such change is a smokescreen for deep currents that continue to flow.

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.   November 30, 2013

 

 

 

 

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bole45@aol.com wrote:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/29/ebony_and_ivy_the_secret_history
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/10/30/pt_2_craig_steven_wilder_on_ebony

Please view this two part interview about how slavery help build America's elite colleges.