Dred Scott Case reargued in Second Life

The folks over at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard comissioned this short piece about the famous former slave who fought for his freedom before the courts.

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[TheMonster3412]

the animation is horrible

[draxtordespres]

@TheMonster3412 this is machinima & the capture of a real-time event in SL! Animations and framerates have gotten A LOT better as has the content :)

[emmettk]

Remember this when you listen to a Tea Party member go on and on about the "greatest document ever written"; the Declaration of Independence. "We the people ..." and "...all men are created equal." did not apply to Black people. Today,he United States is a great country, but never pretend we didn't start out as morally backward as any of the other places many of us look down on as morally inferior. If there is one reason other nations are hostile towards us, it is our apparent hypocrisy.

[draxtordespres]

@emmettk good point! I as an immigrant myself still believe in the potential of America - the melting pot I learned about back in High School in Germany! Let's live up to that potential!

[emmettk]

@draxtordespres Thank You.

[draxtordespres]

@emmettk and come join us in Second Life anytime to discuss these & other pressing issues! More info on my website with direct teleport link :)

[Bob2000system]

Chief Justice wrote the Court's majority opinion . "The framers of the Constitution believed that negroes had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."

[wolfpax22]

You guys should have made a custom Roger Taney avatar... now -that- would be ugly...

[KOartist4reaL]

@draxtordespres dude get at me real talk... honestly i would fuck u up in the quickness dog u wake up not knowin shit but r ealize u got a sore ass dog wut u know!