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If we think about racism and why it proliferated in this country, we cannot escape the role of the press. I was looking for something else this week and found examples of headlines American newspapers wrote to describe lynchings. |
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Albert Einstein on Race and Racism |
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This week, Dr. Cynthia Tyson sent me a piece about Albert Einstein, the brilliant physicist who discovered the Theory of Relativity. While we all know about his work as a physicist, few of us know that he spoke out about racism, which he called the “American disease.” |
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Andrew Jackson, People of Color and the Word |
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Andrew Jackson, who was President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, believed strongly that the Bible justified oppression of not only Black people, but American Indians as well. He passed himself off as one who really knew the Bible; he would boast that he had read three chapters of the Bible every day for 35 years prior to his election as President. Victories he had as a soldier he attributed to God; when his forces had defeated forces from Great Britain, then the “greatest nation on the earth,” none would deny, he would say, that the outcome had been providential. |
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Black People and the Yellow Fever Epidemic |
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I'll never forget the day when, as a nursing student, I was learning how to do injections. There was a fairly extensive section in our textbook, teaching us the mechanics of giving injections, and then there was a section subtitled, “Cultural Considerations.” |
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I received a book this week as a present about the music which was composed during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and for some reason, it piqued my curiosity about whether or not there were black people in Germany during the Holocaust and how they were treated. |
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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 began on July 27th and by the time it ended, 38 people had died, 537 were injured and about 1,000 people were homeless. The federal government deployed in excess of 6,000 troops to help quell the violence which was exploding in the Loop, but more so in the city's so-called “Black Belt.” |
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We have occasionally been incensed when the United States Supreme Court has intervened in matters we think don't belong to it; many were bothered when the high court intervened in the 2000 elections when Al Gore was repudiating the vote count in Florida, and more recently, people were mad when the high court sought to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. |
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For the next few weeks, we will be watching the confirmation proceedings of people President Bush nominates as justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. As of this writing, John Roberts' nomination as Chief Justice is set to go before the full senate. The nominations … and appointments … of judges have huge implications for us as African Americans, and always have. |
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Last week, we learned about Hamilton Naki, a black South African, who, though he had never been allowed to study in medical school because of his color, was a brilliant surgeon and teacher, working with famed cardiac surgeon, Christian Barnard. |
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Just as Jewish children are taught the horrible atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust, so should African American children be taught the atrocities of racism in America. |
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Research using “immortal cells” of a deceased African American woman has produced answers about illnesses and led to effective treatments as well. |
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This week, some of the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina appeared before a Congressional sub-committee and shared their feelings about what happened, including their belief that racism played a big part in how they were treated and why they were ignored for so long. New Orleans residents compared the experience with the Jewish Holocaust, saying that their experiences were a Holocaust, too. |
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How Slaves Built the Capital and the White House |
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A few years ago, I read Randall Robinson's book, “The Debt,” and was stunned as I read his account of how slave labor built the White House and the Capitol. Robinson said he stood in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, and noticed how the frescoes, the walls, the other art work, didn't say anything, didn't show anything to the millions of people who visit annually about the work slaves did to make those two buildings a reality. |
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When I was a young girl, I'd hear on television people talking about “Jim Crow,” and I asked my mother over and over who Jim Crow was? I knew he couldn't have been a good person, because every time I heard “Jim Crow,” it was related to, or in reference to, something unkind or unfair which was being done to Black people. |
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys |
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I recently read an amazing book called, “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.” A novel written by Gary Schmidt, it is based on a true story which shows the heinousness of racism in our country. |
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The actions of Michael Eric Rudolph, bombing abortion clinics and gay establishments … brings to mind the fact that hate crimes have always been a part of life, as has terrorism. For African Americans, terrorism took the form of cross burnings and intimidation by members of white hate groups, and in the form of lynching. |
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The year was 1946.
George Dorsey was 28 years old and had fought in World War II. He had been home only six months. He, his wife Mae, 23, his sister, Dorothy Dorsey Malcom, 20, and Roger Malcom, 24, were out together. Dorothy was the wife of Roger. |
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In Rebecca Skloot’s book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” she tells how Johns Hopkins Hospital was established at the direction of Johns Hopkins, a white man born on his father’s tobacco plantation. His father freed his slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation, and Hopkins, the son, went on to become a wealthy man as a banker and grocer, and by selling his own brand of whiskey, Skloot writes. |
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The story of the Dust Bowl which hit the Great Plains in the 1930s is gripping and powerful and a testimony to the resilience of a people who would not give up in spite of brutal weather which sapped life from humans and animals alike. |
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We all know that it was dangerous for black people to ever question a white person about anything; one of the most astounding statements ever was that given by then Chief U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney who wrote, in the Dred Scott decision, that there were “no rights of a black man that a white man was bound to respect.” |
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Robert and Nancy Hicks Maynard were successful journalists, he for the Washington Post and she for the New York Times, when they decided to leave their prestigious jobs to do something that nobody else wanted to do. |
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It is the most amazing story.
This week, at the Haley Farm gathering of the Children's Defense Fund(CDF), I was privileged to meet Ruby Bridges, the now-grown woman who, at age 6, integrated an all-white school in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
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Last week, we talked about the nation's first race riot, but one of the worst race riots in the history of this nation happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.
Tulsa was a city in which African Americans thrived. The “Greenwood District,” located in Tulsa, was an area teeming with Black businesses. |
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