"Here I am not a negro but a human being for the first time in my life."

[CrusaderFrank]

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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Well, democrats in the South were running the KKK at that time

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They were DemoKKKrats , Tommy. Make sure you break with their "narrative"!!!

Greg

“If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems...in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.” -- Malcolm X

 

[gtopa1]

“If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems...in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.” -- Malcolm X

I am gobsmacked that there are Blacks who vote Democrat; it would be like a Bulgarian (Balkans) voting to keep the Ottomans in charge!!!

Greg

 

[DudleySmith]

“If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems...in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.” -- Malcolm X

Malcolm was a great man, capable of thinking for himself. Black pols have pretty much crushed black education,

 

[Tommy Tainant]

It didn't. He was not given ANY real time with those who were the "real" people. You want to know what they did to some of my extended family AFTER fighting with them against the Nazis??? They were a THREAT so were "liqiuidated". You are backing a system worse than ANYTHING that has gone before.

Greg

Well you have given us your view. Do you not think that Robeson would have had a different view based on what he experienced ?
He goes to Russia and is treated well. Comes back home and is treated like shit.
Would that not affect your opinion ?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

lol the racist colonizer and slave ship operator is calling other people racists. Yes, these people really are that stupid.

Well I cant think of a better description of you.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Well, democrats in the South were running the KKK at that time

Yes. Before they jumped over to the GOP.

 

[gtopa1]

Well you have given us your view. Do you not think that Robeson would have had a different view based on what he experienced ?
He goes to Russia and is treated well. Comes back home and is treated like shit.
Would that not affect your opinion ?

Paul was of use as a propaganda tool. Of course they treated him well, as they did their other useful idiots until they were of no further use. But you approve of that.

Greg

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yes. Before they jumped over to the GOP.

Can you name one, besides Robert Byrd?

 

[gtopa1]

Yes. Before they jumped over to the GOP.

LIAR!!!

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Can you name one, besides Robert Byrd?

Um; I know you know but Tommy won't!!! lol

Greg

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Paul was of use as a propaganda tool. Of course they treated him well, as they did their other useful idiots until they were of no further use. But you approve of that.

Greg

Well the soviets were our allies at the time. But you dodge the point Why woulldnt Robeson look kindly on them ? What did he have at home that was so great ?

 

[alexa]

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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He loved the Welsh. He first heard them when they had been protesting unsuccessfully something I think between the wars. What moved him was they were singing as they walked to return home and I think he went with them and helped them. They were in touch for years and at he appeared to come in contact with no racism believing it was not there in Wales. When he heard many years later that there was racism in Wales he just could not believe it and started making excuses... someone must of .....

 

[DudleySmith]

LIAR!!!

Greg

lol the Klan hated both Wallace and Strom Thurmond. These morons never know what they're babbling about; it's not like they care about facts.

 

[DudleySmith]

Well the soviets were our allies at the time. But you dodge the point Why woulldnt Robeson look kindly on them ? What did he have at home that was so great ?

So why didn't he defect, then, dumbass?

 

[Polishprince]

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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Glad to see someone liked Stalin. Did Mr. Robeson visit national socialist Germany as well? He probably would have got along tremendously with Mr. Hitler as well.

 

[Polishprince]

FDR wouldn't shake his black hand and he's lucky he wasn't in FDRs Nazi influencing Tuskegee Eugenics Experiments

JFK wouldn't invite Sammy Fucking Davis to his inauguration because of his racism- and Mr. Davis supported him during the campaign.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

So why didn't he defect, then, dumbass?

Why havent you defected since trump lost ? Thats a shit argument.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Glad to see someone liked Stalin. Did Mr. Robeson visit national socialist Germany as well? He probably would have got along tremendously with Mr. Hitler as well.

You mean like Jesse Owens did ? What a crass thing to say.

 

[AZrailwhale]

That is such a sweeping statement. I would agree that for white people America was markedly better than life in the Soviet Union. But how can you consider that it was better for Black folks ?

We could list all the freedoms that Black folk were denied by White America but for example -

He couldnt live here he wanted
He couldnt fuck who he wanted
He couldnt marry who he wanted
She couldnt sit at the counter
She couldnt sit at the front of the bus
She couldnt read the same books that white folks could.


Now you are very vocal about mask mandates and other perceived infringments on your freedoms. But you gloss over the list of things in this post. And that is a very small example. I understand that relics of Jim Crow are turning up still.

How would you feel living under such an oppressive regime ?

In the South. In the North and West there were few restrictions on blacks. Even if there were discriminatory laws on the books, they were ignored. I was born in the early fifties and lived in Ohio and California. There was no de jure segregation in either state. Blacks could legally live anywhere they wanted except for a few neighborhoods that had exclusion written into property deeds. Where were blacks living in the UK at the time? Were minorities treated as well as whites there?