Stockholm syndrome - giving the pope an honorary headdress
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Karma's Coming
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I challenge you
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Different Gauges of Acceptability
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DC History
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There's a story here
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Pleasant People
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They wanted the whitewashed version. They came to the plantation for the good times, not the truth. This is supposed to be a vacation, not a history. If I wanted history, I'd go to the holocaust museum or something.
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Paul Robeson, HUAC testimony 1956, quoted in The Whole World in His Hands, p. 205.
ROBESON: I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country and they are not. They are not in Mississippi and they are not . . . in Washington. . . . You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people. . . . That is why I am here today. . . .
MR. SCHERER: Why do you not stay in Russia?
MR. ROBESON: Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist- minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?
I love the image of a young Black child next to the first Black president of the US. Upon further observation though, I see JOY and HOPE in the faces of the 3 adults on the right