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Apr. 12th, 2002 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupDontcha hate it when your browser crashes and a long entry gets wiped out? Dammit.
Anyway, my class was surprisingly unmoved by The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I came in all loaded for arguments and controversy... and they were just really blase about it. "Yes, it is true. I am the devil." (There is not a single African American in either section of 30 people.) They saw it as not really having anything to do with them, because it was written "so long ago." So it was frustrating to not be able to reach them at all.
I will have them look at this web site on COINTELPRO that I found a while back and reviewed for the Board... Especially the Black Panther Coloring Book invented by the US government to discredit the Panthers. Since historians usually debunk conspiracy theories, how refreshing to find an actual honest-to-god conspiracy to talk about.
Life is returning to normal... exhausting. Spent last night trying to hack, hack, hack out 4000 words on the Transportation Revolution of the 1820s... I am a born hack, but still, I just could not make myself do it. Have to set my sights on the weekend.
Got ahold of the new Ohio quarters. "Yeah, when I think of Ohio... I think of astronauts!" I think we have a new winner for lamest state design (Pennsylvania comes in second).
Adamart's reading list makes me want to go out and get some fiction. Someday I want to aspire to more than hackdom again.
Anyway, my class was surprisingly unmoved by The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I came in all loaded for arguments and controversy... and they were just really blase about it. "Yes, it is true. I am the devil." (There is not a single African American in either section of 30 people.) They saw it as not really having anything to do with them, because it was written "so long ago." So it was frustrating to not be able to reach them at all.
I will have them look at this web site on COINTELPRO that I found a while back and reviewed for the Board... Especially the Black Panther Coloring Book invented by the US government to discredit the Panthers. Since historians usually debunk conspiracy theories, how refreshing to find an actual honest-to-god conspiracy to talk about.
Life is returning to normal... exhausting. Spent last night trying to hack, hack, hack out 4000 words on the Transportation Revolution of the 1820s... I am a born hack, but still, I just could not make myself do it. Have to set my sights on the weekend.
Got ahold of the new Ohio quarters. "Yeah, when I think of Ohio... I think of astronauts!" I think we have a new winner for lamest state design (Pennsylvania comes in second).
Adamart's reading list makes me want to go out and get some fiction. Someday I want to aspire to more than hackdom again.
