Tag: Slavery
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Questlove Singes O’Reilly’s on Slavery
“I dunno if that man’s (never say his name) point is to troll at any cost whatsoever but his entire existence is a 5 steps backwards for any progress made in humanity.” Questlove ran the following on his Instagram (with the attached photograph): Slavery was inhumane. Slavery was sadistic. Slavery was uncomfortable. Slavery was unjust.…
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"A Tiny Ripple of Hope"
I came across this speech (Facebook, then Daily Kos) and thought I should share: Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr. Diamond, Mr. Daniel, and Ladies and Gentlemen I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over…
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A Mercy
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-prize winner Toni Morrison has a new book, “A Mercy,” out. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. From a review in the village voice: Seventy-seven-year-old Morrison sets her story down in primeval America in the 1680s, before slavery is institutionalized but when the law grants “license to any white…
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March of history
I found this story, From slave cabin to White House, a family rooted in black America, published by the Times of London, over the weekend and could not get over it. As an immigrant to this country, I cannot claim to know what African-Americans who have slaves for ancestors must feel at this barrier-shattering historic…
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Obama wins!
OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OBAMA DELIVERS VICTORY SPEECH: ‘WE WILL GET THERE’ MCCAIN CONCEDES: ENDS ‘LONG JOURNEY’ IN PHOENIX OBAMA WINS First African American in highest U.S. office Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune By Maeve Reston and Michael Muskal | 8:05 p.m. The first-term Democratic senator from Illinois defeats Republican John McCain. Reporting from Phoenix…
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'Race and American Memory'
Roger Cohen of The New York Times (or should I say the International Herald Tribune?) is fast becoming my favorite columnist. He is a great writer with a searching conscience and vision. Cohen was writing about the decision by Congress in 2003 to spend $500 million to build the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American…
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History
Douglas A. Blackmon reaches deep into history to re-examine some of our past: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. This is how Random House, the publisher, described the book: In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American…