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re: Racial tensions will never go away so long as we are afraid to have honest discussions
Posted on 8/14/17 at 10:38 am to crazy4lsu
Posted on 8/14/17 at 10:38 am to crazy4lsu
quote:TNC had good commentary on this during the recent "controversy" over the new HBO series:
then shouldn't we talk about actual black history that was actually washed away?
quote:LINK
Skepticism must be the order of the day. So that when Benioff asks “what would the world have looked like … if the South had won,” we should not hesitate to ask what Benioff means by “the South.” He obviously does not mean the minority of white Southern unionists, who did win. And he does not mean those four million enslaved blacks, whom the Civil War ultimately emancipated, yet whose victory was tainted. Comprising 40 percent of the Confederacy’s population, this was the South’s indispensable laboring class, its chief resource, its chief source of wealth, and the sole reason why a Confederacy existed in the first place. But they are not the subject of Benioff’s inquiry, because he is not so much asking about “the South” winning, so much as he is asking about “the white South” winning.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 10:45 am to Big Scrub TX
Coates is a damn genius. I love him.
I do wish people read Baldwin, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. The output of black authors, and the discussions they were having 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago are the same discussions we are having now. Baldwin's "Notes on a Native Son," is one of the most dazzling, gorgeous essays ever written in English, and its a shame the voices that articulated the problems within the black community and with the white community are not more widely read by everyone. None of those writers are needlessly esoteric, and their work has literary value outside of their race, especially when it was difficult for black authors to get published.
I do wish people read Baldwin, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. The output of black authors, and the discussions they were having 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago are the same discussions we are having now. Baldwin's "Notes on a Native Son," is one of the most dazzling, gorgeous essays ever written in English, and its a shame the voices that articulated the problems within the black community and with the white community are not more widely read by everyone. None of those writers are needlessly esoteric, and their work has literary value outside of their race, especially when it was difficult for black authors to get published.
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