[antimedia] antimedia: One of the reasons it's important....

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Posted by antimedia:
One of the reasons it's important....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1180223804.shtml


   ....to seek out different points of views and experiences is because
   you get exposed to [1]information you wouldn't otherwise have known
   about.

     In 1858, South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond, a wealthy
     plantation owner, made the following statement on the floor of the
     US Senate in which he laid out his Mudsill Theory in support of the
     continuation of slavery:

     In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial
     duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring
     but a low order of intellect and but little skill.

     To his thinking, not just South Carolina but the country as a whole
     needed this mudsill in order to prosper and grow:

     It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political
     government; and you might as well attempt to build a house in the
     air, as to build either the one or the other, except on this
     mud-sill.

     Today it seems as though we have a new Mudsill - a new social class
     of people to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life.
     And those people are the Illegal Aliens.

     ...the American economy would suffer tremendously. I don't know
     who's going to cut all those lawns, I don't know who's going to do
     all this laundry, I don't know who's going to dig all those wells,
     and pick all that fruit...

     Now, before you start typing out those nasty e-mails, let me just
     say that I am not the one advancing this thinking. I believe that
     such thinking, as with the thinking of James Henry Hammond
     regarding slavery, is as wrong-headed as wrong-headedness can be.
     No class of people should be exploited for the benefit of others.
     No, the person who spoke those words is none other than Juan
     Williams of National Public Radio (on Special Report with Brit
     Hume, 2/3rds of the way down, in the Panel discussion segment).

   I have always found this way of thinking insulting. Steve's insight,
   however, helped me to better understand why.
   Tags: [2]immigration [3]prejudice [4]slavery

References

   1. http://www.theblackrepublican.net/archives/003834.html
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/immigration
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/prejudice
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/slavery