PoliticalChic
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I opened up Google today, and find that they are celebrating Zora Neale Hurston's 123rd birthday.....
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891[1][2] January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author who worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. Hurston was a black Republican who was generally sympathetic to the Old Right and a fan of Booker T. Washington's self-help politics. She disagreed with the philosophies (including Communism and the New Deal) supported by many of her colleagues in the Harlem Renaissance.
2. Black playwrite Zora Neale Hurston: Throughout the New Deal era the relief program was the biggest weapon ever placed in the hands of those who sought power and votes Dependent upon governmentfor their daily bread, men gradually relaxed their watchfulness and submitted to the will of the Little White Father, WORLD | History turned right side up | Marvin Olasky | Feb. 13, 2010
3. "Hurston, then, has taken her place in the Harlem Renaissance diorama, and it would be easy for us to read the knowing grin she wears in photos as signaling her recognition that Black Is Beautiful a fervent Republican who would be at home today on Fox News and whose racial pride led her to some unorthodox conclusions.. Hurston would also hang out in New York with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and the literary gang she termed the niggerati [Her writing] is a channeling of Boass idea, a demonstration that a remote, poverty-stricken world possessed a vital culture of its own and wasnt merely a degraded version of mainstream white culture. Hurston bucked against what she called the oleomargarine era in Negro writing and urged black writers to resist merely imitating whites. This insistence that the humblest folkways of black America were a precious heritage crying for documentation was the bedrock of Hurstons work. Today, we must read Mules and Men and Tell My Horse as history. Desegregation, roads, and media spelled the death of the folkways that Hurston documented.
a. For her, the key was self-reliance: Its the old idea, trite but true, of helping people to help themselves that will be the only salvation of the Negro in this country. No one from the outside can do it for him. Unsurprisingly, she admired Booker T. Washington.
b.She knew that when it comes to ability, assertion cannot stand up to demonstration: Equality is as you do it and not as you talk it. If you are better than I, you can tell me about it if you want to, but then again, show me so I can know. . . . If you cant show me your superiority, dont bother to bring the mess up, lest I merely rate you as a bully. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against. But it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! "
Thus Spake Zora by John H. McWhorter, City Journal Summer 2009
Zora Neale Hurston was right in pointing out that
All your skin folks aint your kin folks. And all your color aint your kind!
Happy Birthday to Zora!
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891[1][2] January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author who worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. Hurston was a black Republican who was generally sympathetic to the Old Right and a fan of Booker T. Washington's self-help politics. She disagreed with the philosophies (including Communism and the New Deal) supported by many of her colleagues in the Harlem Renaissance.
2. Black playwrite Zora Neale Hurston: Throughout the New Deal era the relief program was the biggest weapon ever placed in the hands of those who sought power and votes Dependent upon governmentfor their daily bread, men gradually relaxed their watchfulness and submitted to the will of the Little White Father, WORLD | History turned right side up | Marvin Olasky | Feb. 13, 2010
3. "Hurston, then, has taken her place in the Harlem Renaissance diorama, and it would be easy for us to read the knowing grin she wears in photos as signaling her recognition that Black Is Beautiful a fervent Republican who would be at home today on Fox News and whose racial pride led her to some unorthodox conclusions.. Hurston would also hang out in New York with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and the literary gang she termed the niggerati [Her writing] is a channeling of Boass idea, a demonstration that a remote, poverty-stricken world possessed a vital culture of its own and wasnt merely a degraded version of mainstream white culture. Hurston bucked against what she called the oleomargarine era in Negro writing and urged black writers to resist merely imitating whites. This insistence that the humblest folkways of black America were a precious heritage crying for documentation was the bedrock of Hurstons work. Today, we must read Mules and Men and Tell My Horse as history. Desegregation, roads, and media spelled the death of the folkways that Hurston documented.
a. For her, the key was self-reliance: Its the old idea, trite but true, of helping people to help themselves that will be the only salvation of the Negro in this country. No one from the outside can do it for him. Unsurprisingly, she admired Booker T. Washington.
b.She knew that when it comes to ability, assertion cannot stand up to demonstration: Equality is as you do it and not as you talk it. If you are better than I, you can tell me about it if you want to, but then again, show me so I can know. . . . If you cant show me your superiority, dont bother to bring the mess up, lest I merely rate you as a bully. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against. But it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! "
Thus Spake Zora by John H. McWhorter, City Journal Summer 2009
Zora Neale Hurston was right in pointing out that
All your skin folks aint your kin folks. And all your color aint your kind!
Happy Birthday to Zora!