. >> a poem by nikki giovanni. 1619 jamestown, but not only. an answer to the new york times.here may be a time limit, but there is no time limit to change that does not, will not, cannot change. no matter what the color of the people or the language they speak, no matter which god is served, no matter which food is eaten or forbidden, where clothes are worn or not, no matter the hair covered or shaved, no matter how we look at it, there have been slaves. every civilization or rather most, reach a point where slavery is recognized as wrong or in some cases a bad idea. or perhaps more accurately, those who used to sell slaves now no longer have the currency or strength to control the lives of human beings, so they create a lie on a supreme court for the same purpose. i often wonder when i think of the murder of jesus, what he and simon talked about as simon gave jesus some relief with getting the cross to calvary. we have a bit of an idea of what socrates was thinking as he drank hemlock. in our time, we know martin luther king wanted to hear music at dinner. play it beautifull