I was just thinking on this some more and have decided that while I do have a significant part of me that thinks they should be included, and do not like that historical things are removed without consideration that most adults of sound mind can handle such things from a "proper" perspective, relatively and ultimately I think it's best as is for the reasons I outlined just above.

While contemplating what I'd said it occurred to me to look at it from a future perspective, decades from now, and perhaps even 100s or 1000s of years from now.

First of all, I hope that there will still be at least *some* people keeping the chain alive into such times. If so, it would be interesting to see how it becomes presented to them, the entire saga, not only of the Anthology itself, which this new set is essentially a part and extension of, but what and how they tell us of their contexts within humanity.

So those future people would hopefully still be being taught of slavery, post slavery, the civil rights movement, how all of that leads into the events of 2020, etc., and who knows what all is to come from that particular lineage of issues, and if all of that is being looked at from the perspective of someone studying these sets then it would include these tracks having been removed, which would tell them something about us in these times.

And hopefully the synopsis would include the essences of this debate (which I've seen happening in a few spots, not only here at Mudcat). Perhaps it would say something in the order of "At the time the B Sides set was released, this and that was happening in these regards, and the producers decided to omit 3 tracks on such grounds. Some people felt that the tracks should stay for this and that reason, others agreed with their removal" etc.

The whole thing is quite fascinating, really, and ultimately I'm just grateful to see the Anthology still being talked about, still being relevant, still being important enough for such projects to spring from it, still being a part of living history. What an incredible testament to what it was to begin with! At least to the by far relative few who know anything of any of this. I mean, "we all" know of it and this new extension, but I know no one ese in the Away from Keyboard world who does.