How the Boarding of the Gazan Flagship Reveals what is wrong with WORLD HISTORY AT SALEM STATE

A year of study into the history of the world -- required of all no less -- offers us no answer to how we should respond, feel, or merely interpret the events of the past month.  I speak of the Oil Spill and the Killing of Peace Activists.  I hope that we have spoken enough over the last two terms about the environment and about the oppressed people's of the world for good people to reach good conclusions about these news phenomena.  But who are the oppressed, or are we all of us oppressed?  (Further, are we the proletariat or the lumpen proletariat?).  And what is the message of a school that offers free parking but inadequate and poorly placed bike racks?  Does it comport with the lessons of World History, that the slave trade was not merely about raping West Africa but of raping (if you will) the ecosystems of the Caribbean and North Atlkantic¿?  I ask you.