Category Archives: race

White Christmas White Race

December 22, 2023 – 10:44 pm

HOLIDAY INN was released in 1935 featuring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. The composer Irving Berlin wrote twelve songs for the movie about a nightclub in the country. WHITE CHRISTMAS was the hit song.THe record has sold millions, but Irving Berlin was troubled by the lyrics, because of his Jewish faith. I have always thought […]

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GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 8:33 pm

When I was a young boy, I loved the movie GUNGA DIN. The hero was an outcast water-boy. The lowest of the low in the ranks of the British Empire, but Rudyard Kipling recognized their worth to a man dying of thirst and wrote the following poem. GUNGA DIN BY RUDYARD KIPLING You may talk […]

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March On DC Plus 50

August 26, 2023 – 7:37 am

Written on Aug 26, 2013 August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of Americans assembled in Washington DC for the Jobs and Freedom March. The demonstration had a good number of whites, but the marchers were predominantly black and very brave considering how the police treated any congregation large and small of America?s minority with violence. […]

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JFK on the March to Washington

August 26, 2023 – 7:08 am

Written August 13, 2013 Two years ago the BBC News reported that JFK had attempted to block the 1963 March on Washington for fear of violence and painted a picture of a president apathetic to the plight of blacks in America, however the article ignored to mention the Justice Department descending on Birmingham after the […]

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Lorraine Hotel Fifty-Three Years Ago

January 16, 2023 – 6:08 am

In April 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address a gathering at the Masonic Temple. The city’s black sanitation workers had walked off the job to protest working condition and low wages. The speech keynoted by the phrase ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop.” That night King stayed at the Lorraine Hotel with […]

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