The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe. Established when the Han Dynasty in China officially opened trade with the West in 130 B.C., the Silk Road routes remained in use until 1453 A.D., when the Ottoman Empire boycotted trade with China and closed them. Although it’s been nearly 600 years since the Silk Road has been used for international trade, the routes had a lasting impact on commerce, culture and history that resonates even today.
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If you are referring to "There is nothing we can do about it." then the purpose is to wake us up to an attitude that exists in what passes for education. A person with a good moral education would be horrified at the thought that nothing can be done. That a person like Governor Wallace could utter such a statement and no one is outraged.
We have to be outraged at such statements. We have to know that the very core of human dignity is being attacked when "nothing can be done."
Baldwin is also trying to point out that we think we are better than the convicts that were on the Mayflower. We think we have progressed in some way.
Baldwin thinks we have not. Not as long as we do nothing when there is one set of behaviors for one color people and one set for the blacks.
