tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post8689375364425001783..comments2024-03-27T11:10:57.384-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: A Room of My Own: A Tanka about the "3/5 Compromise"Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-73166064846117128342013-02-28T09:02:09.643-05:002013-02-28T09:02:09.643-05:00Below is an excerpt from my reply to one comment p...Below is an excerpt from my reply to one comment posted on a poetry forum:<br /><br />Historically speaking, the authorial note has always been used as a literary device, such as the note in "Howl," whose footnote is generally viewed by critics to be a functional Part IV of the poem.<br /><br />And read in the thematic context of the note, "5/5" carries politico-emotional weight to the poem.<br /><br />The sociopolitical significance of the image in the lower verse is the protesting words, not centuries-old scars, on the Backs of black students, not slaves. <br /><br />These descendants of former slaves can stand up to their ignorant president, who's is no longer the Master of their Bodies and Minds.<br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-20653646467301135522013-02-28T08:57:17.500-05:002013-02-28T08:57:17.500-05:00Here is the link to Dr. James Wagner's essay i...Here is the link to Dr. James Wagner's essay in the most recent issue of Emory Magazine, http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2013/winter/register/president.html#sthash.CAlOhZh7.dpufhttp://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2013/winter/register/president.html<br /><br />Here is the link to the New York Times piece, entitled Emory University’s Leader Reopens Its Racial Wounds, written by Kim Severson and Robbis Brown, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/education/emory-university-president-revives-racial-concerns.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0<br /><br />Below is an excerpt from the article:<br /><br />Leslie Harris, a history professor and the director of a series of campus events that for five years examined issues of race at Emory, said she was more troubled by the intellectual holes in Dr. Wagner’s argument.<br /><br />In his column, Dr. Wagner used the Congressional fight over the national debt to muse on the importance of compromise, which he called a tool for noble achievement. “The constitutional compromise about slavery, for instance, facilitated the achievement of what both sides of the debate really aspired to — a new nation,” he wrote.<br /><br />That is a deep misunderstanding of history, Dr. Harris said.<br /><br />“The three-fifths compromise is one of the greatest failed compromises in U.S. history,” she said. “Its goal was to keep the union together, but the Civil War broke out anyway.” Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com