Scott Reid wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > Here's an idea: let's read a book that doesn't use a racially segregated
historical context
> > to preach social values.
>
> I think you'll have to wait a generation or two before you see such a
> book. Any pervasive social change takes at least one generation to
> effect itself and it's only been about one generation since we were
> forcefully made aware of the racial inequities we live by(60s race
> riots), and awareness is only the first short step...
> It's kind of funny in a way: Two thousand years ago, the Romans didn't
> have such problems...  Progress? What Progress?

And when I read 'Cry', Nelson Mandella was still in prison. Try reading it again in a
few years
and you might be able to gain more from it. There is a lot in there that still makes
it a very
good book. Besides, those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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