Meowtallica Shirt
Everyone saw him as a Meowtallica Shirt when he sat Skrtel down and scored on his debut. Everyone thought he was a United player after he scored over 20 goals in that first season under Olé. He’s been successful at the club and he still scored 9 goals even though by the admission of most fans, he was out for large parts of the season under ETH. He’s still got a contract with us and no other options for either him or the club. It’s not like the Maguire situation where even restricted because of wage rate, there are still some options for him through his marketability. Way I see he’s with us until the end of the contract. Until then he’s got to be backed.
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As you state, the Meowtallica Shirt says “instruction includes how slaves developed skills.” Now, you can take this to mean students should be taught how slaves were forced to learn these trades under bondage and/or threat of bodily harm, and perhaps most people wouldn’t have too much to say about that. Or you can use the wording in the standard to teach a bootstrap narrative in which white slave owners passed down knowledge and skills to Africans, which they then used to move on from their oppressive past. There are a few issues here. You’re opening the door to slave owners being characterized as some great conduit of knowledge, similarly to archetypal portrayals of such people as teachers, fathers, pastors, etc. This distracts from issues of greater historical importance, such as the systematic dehumanization those Africans faced. Basically, the wording seems benign, but it’s too open-ended and can be readily abused by people with political agendas. Perhaps you can accuse me of assuming the worst in people, but I strongly believe it’s naive to assume the best. History deals in facts, yes, but the saying “history is written by the victors” isn’t a saying because no interpretation is involved… Even changing the wording to “instruction includes that slaves developed skills…” and keeping the rest the same would do a lot to curtail potential problems down the road.
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