On the other hand, Frederick Douglass, a self-emancipated slave, who ran away, said, based on dealing with masters, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will."
Charles Brown
>>> <digloria at mindspring.com> 03/24/99 02:33PM >>>
yoshie writes:
>I think that you are talking about two different (though not always
>separate) things above: humoring the oppressor; and covertly criticizing
>the oppressor.
oh sure. but sometimes aren't these the only options? it wouldn't have been especially effective to constantly challenge everything they did. i would have lost my job, only to face the same elsewhere.
kelley "The rest obsequate[d]"