“One of the strangest controversies in the history of Orientalism turned upon the “origin of bhakti”, as if devotion had at some given moment been a new idea and thenceforth a fashionable one. It would have been simpler to observe that the word bhakti means primarily a given share, and therefore also the devotion or love that all liberality presupposes; and so that inasmuch as one “gives God his share” (bhagam), i.e. sacrifces, one is his bhakta. Thus in the hymn, “If thou givest me my share” amounts to saying “If thou lovest me”. It has often been pointed out that the Sacrifice was thought of as a commerce between Gods and men: but not often realised that by introducing into traditional conceptions of trade notions derived from our own internecine commercial transactions, we have falsified our understanding of the original sense of such a commerce, which was actually more of the potlatsh type, a competition in giving, than like our competitions in taking.
The Arab spring. People communicated through Facebook and Myspace on where to protest. There governments folded. <span />
c.) the federal government gained the power to tax, which was something only the states had been allowed to do.
Within everything there is good and evil
Thurgood Marshall argued that providing separate facilities for black and white citizens was inherently unequal. His argument was based around the idea that the separate facilities were not equal and that their was a social stigma around the all black facilities in the US that made it seem as if blacks were inferior.
The Supreme Court case ruled in favor of Brown and Marshall, and stated that “separate but equal” is unconstitutional. This essentially ended segregated schools for blacks and whites.
Even though this was supposed to be a step towards equality, blacks were still treated unequal in American society and still discriminated against. States have went as far as stopping black students from entering previously all white schools right after the Brown case was decided.
