Tag Archives: Race

George Washington – 2022

February 21, 2022 – 6:18 pm

Today America celebrates President’s Day to honor past presidents, but especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. New York only recognizes George Washington on his birthday of February 22, 1732 almost three hundred years ago. Gilbert Stuart painted the Father of the Nation as a white man as had countless other artists, however historically many English […]

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Yo Da Man

September 7, 2020 – 12:57 am

“Hey you know something people I’m not black But there’s a whole lots a times I wish I could say I’m not white.” I have lived by these words from the Mothers of Invention’s FREAK OUT LP, which I stole that record from Zayre discount store in 1969. I was working at the same store. […]

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Mr. Wonderful And Race

July 12, 2016 – 12:47 pm

The only way to cure racism is love. And lots of it. Sammie Davis Jr. knew the antidote and he lived in lynching days. Marilyn Monroe was his friend and acted as a beard for his relationship with Kim Novak. Their affair almost got him killed by the orders of Herbert Cohn, a gangster Hollywood […]

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METHUSALAH’S MAD DASH by Peter Nolan Smith

June 2, 2013 – 2:13 pm

Last year I read that senior athletes competed against each other in a variety of track and field events. I had to ask myself, “Could I beat a 90 year-old in the 100-meter dash?” The current record by a 95 year-old was 22 seconds. In Brooklyn I talked my friend AP into officiating my race […]

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Racist Motherfuckers

November 3, 2012 – 8:29 pm

I am a white male over the age of 30. My family came from pure Caucasian stock. My father’s side dated back to the Mayflower and my mother’s ancestor were Celts from the West of Ireland. Other than a strain of Moorish blood from the survivors of the Spanish Armada intermingling with the Irish of […]

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