Charles Ogletree Jr. a Harvard Law professor, civil rights scholar, and Oak Bluffs summer resident died Friday, August 4, in his home in Odenton, Maryland. The New York Times reports that the 70-year-old Ogletree died from complications with Alzheimer’s disease. Ogletree was a namesake of the Union Chapel’s “Charles Ogletree Public Forum Series” […]
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you know, there is a discussion of race riots that take place. but there s no direct conversation of lynchings. there is phrases like, you know, when violence was committed by both white and black people. and i think you have to make a distinction there. violent acts against white people, against black people, is not the same thing as black people defending themselves from white people. so there s acts of violence and then there s self-defense. but you don t get that sharp distinction there. and i think students will be left to sort of, you know, make up their own minds about what they think actually happened in slavery. if we create this portrait of slavey that talks about how slaves benefited from the institution of slavery, there s language in there about how certain skills enslaved people developed caused them to benefit from certain aspects of slavery. that s impossible. there s no way in which enslaved people could benefit from the institution of slavery. so with that kind of slo