Back in the relatively early days of this blog, my friend Marsha Joyner guest posted a wonderful reflection on Watch Night Services in African-American culture. I still get a lot of search engine traffic to it every year around this time. If you haven’t read it before, I invite you to read the whole thing. [...]
Watch Night Services (from the Archives)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Dec, 2010 in civil rights movement, friends, marsha joyner, race and racism
Haley Barbour’s Disingenuous Comparison
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 28. Dec, 2010 in california, civil rights movement, mississippi, race and racism
UPDATE 12/29: Justin Elliott spoke with Steve Mangold and was able to elaborate on Mangold’s letter. As you may recall, when Haley Barbour was asked by the Weekly Standard what it was like to grow up in Yazoo City, MS “in the midst of the civil rights revolution,” Barbour said, ““I just don’t remember it [...]
Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 21. Dec, 2010 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, mississippi, politics, race and racism, voting rights
(An update follows this post.) Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is at it again. Seems like every time Barbour pops up in the news these days he’s busy whitewashing Mississippi’s racist past. The latest came my way yesterday via Digby and Joan McCarter at Kos. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Barbour had the audacity [...]
Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 17. Dec, 2010 in civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, friends, photo, race and racism, Weblogs, women and feminism
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust. [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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