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You are woefully ignorant marvin. The UK was a welcoming home to escaped slaves from the land of the free. Look up Bill Richmond and Tom Molineux who became leading lights in Regency society and were able o build a better life than that enjoyed on the plantation.Your racist country wouldn't allow him to emigrate even if he'd wanted to (and who would?). Perhaps he should have stayed and helped you, since England is still a racist shithole.
Here is a man who was lionised wherever he went in the world but could not live freely in his own country. He sang in my home town once and people queued for days in order to see him. I love this picture.
RIP Comrade.
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You twisted a statement Robeson made about himself into a statement that his whole race.Well that's weird that he thought Negros aren't human beings..
That's kinda like what MLK said the night the FBI bugged his motel room, while he was shacked up with two white whores:
"I am not a Negro tonight."
Why should Americans leave the country they were born in ? Suely it is better to stay and make it right ?You know what's funny about blacks? They'll knock this country left right and sideways. They'll call it racist, homophobic, etc. They insist that you refer to them as "african americans" and insist "da po-leece iz out to get 'em" yet not a single one of them is willing to leave this godawful racist nation and go back to Africa, where they came from. Oh hellllzzzz to the no. Day not be fo dat, bro.
Here is a man who was lionised wherever he went in the world but could not live freely in his own country. He sang in my home town once and people queued for days in order to see him. I love this picture.
RIP Comrade.
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With songs such as his trademark “Ol' Man River,” he became one of the most popular concert singers of his time. His “Othello” was the longest-running Shakespeare play in Broadway history, running for nearly three hundred performances.
Robeson had a great voice. Listen to him singing with no accompaniment, not on a sound stage or concert hall but in a meeting room to group of miners.
He built a huge bond with the British working classes.
The Gresford Disaster was the worst pit disaster in living memory and there wasnt a family in the town that didnt know someone who was killed. Robeson did a fundraising concert to raise money for the 265 families who were left destitute.
This wa vital because it was a poor area and it was at a time before the welfare state was introduced by the Labour government.
Even the survivors were punished because they had to close down most of the pit and they were thrown out of work by the bastard pit owners. Local legend has it that the fire still burns underground in the sealed off shaft.
To have such a great man as Paul Robeson come to the town and lend a hand can only be imagined. He sang in a converted cinema whch still stands today.
A truly great American.
20 years ago the top Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers entered the charts with their tribute to the great man.
He made a great impression on Wales.
The Least Commie Is the Most FreeIf he had touched that old dear in the US the other white guys would have strung him up whilst the police looked the other way.
Tell me which society was most free ?
Our First Republican President Sent Americans Off to Kill Their Fellow Americans on Behalf of AfricansA serious response.
1. Yes, Mr. R. was understandably touched by the fact that he was treated just like any other human being.
2. With all due respect (I am NOT being sarcastic), if that place in the Soviet Union had had a lot of people of his ethnicity living there, he would probably not have been so warmly received.
3. It was Abraham Lincoln who (before he was elected President) gently and calmly opined that Caucasian people and African American people would be happier if they lived separate lives.
a. I do NOT know whether he was right. But he may have been.
That is not what his statement meant and I think you know it. He was referring to himself not the race. His statement implies that as a Negro he was not treated as a human being but is now.Well that's weird that he thought Negros aren't human beings..
That's kinda like what MLK said the night the FBI bugged his motel room, while he was shacked up with two white whores:
"I am not a Negro tonight."
Maybe he could sit at the front of the bus in Moscow.eat and drink where he wanted. Live where he wanted and fuck who he wanted.Robeson was a celebrity in the US in his day and a relatively wealthy man while white folks were struggling with FDR's Great Depression. Why didn't he consider himself a human being in the U.S. but felt comfortable in Russia? History will tell that he was misguided by his conversion to socialism.
Black folk would not agree with you. In the pre civil rights era they had limited freedom.The Least Commie Is the Most Free
That is not what his statement meant and I think you know it. He was referring to himself not the race. His statement implies that as a Negro he was not treated as a human being but is now.
The flag that flew off the slave ships for 200+ years was the Union Jack. The history of British domination includes horrific episodes of cruelty in India and Africa and now hypocrite Brits lecture the Colonies about the effects of slavery? Maybe it's more about socialism.Maybe he could sit at the front of the bus in Moscow.eat and drink where he wanted. Live where he wanted and fuck who he wanted.
Thats basic stuff. I have always had that freedom. Robeson not so much.
Maybe he could sit at the front of the bus in Moscow.eat and drink where he wanted. Live where he wanted and fuck who he wanted.
Thats basic stuff. I have always had that freedom. Robeson not so much.
Because the US was not fit for black folk ?
In America those 'Negros' gave us the roots to rock and roll!!! Not to mention the Blues and Jazz. White folks really like that shit. !!!
