US Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican from Georgia, made a very bald appeal to racists to unite against Obama. This wasn’t a private statement caught on a mic he didn’t realize was on. This was a statement for the record, to reporters, in the halls of the United States Congress. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential [...]
“Uppity,” That’s Racist for “Kill”
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Sep, 2008 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, race and racism, southwest ms
The Legacy of a Murder (full text)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Mar, 2008 in civil rights movement, politics, publication, race and racism, southwest ms
I’ve uploaded to scribd.com the complete PDF version my article in the March/April issue of ColorLines Magazine, “The Legacy of a Murder,” about the 1959 murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville, MS. You can read it in the handy viewer, embedded in this post, or you can go to the article’s page on Scribd and [...]
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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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