MDDM Gershom's Intervention (was ...

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< To be fair to MalignD's point, changing "slave" to "enslaved person" is no
more than a nominal distinction, of course. And yet, there *are* ignorant
people out there who might perceive the term "slave" as denoting something
innate, a fault of the individual or race, rather than something forcibly
imposed. Though, it's unlikely that they're the sort of people who'd be
reading Walker's books. >>

Whether or not "Dr." Walker was making a valid point, mine was to underscore 
that Millison was yanking a source off the internet to back up his point, a 
source intended to be regarded as authoritive by dint of her being black.  

In fact she labors in a field notable for its low level of scholarship and 
her opinion attracts no particular weight or authority.