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Author Archives: Max West
Booker T. Washington: A False Foundation
“Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long. I … Continue reading
Second Religiousness
“From Homer’s Ulysses to Goethe’s Faust, White Europeans and Americans have never tired of asking questions about who they were and who they are.” “Oswald Spengler deals with the idea of identity, although in his main work he never used … Continue reading
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Booker T. Washington: Governor
“I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education. Not long ago, when passing through the streets … Continue reading
Myths of Slavery: Pt 3,291
Henry Louis Gates Jr., of ‘Stupid Cambridge Cop’ / Beer Summit fame is an angry, angry man. A bigger ‘racial’ chip on a shoulder you’ll never find. In “Free Blacks Lived in the North, Right?“, he discovers yet another piece … Continue reading
Going Clear – Pt. 213
For the better part of 20 years now, I’m been absolutely fascinated with the cult of Scientology. This past winter, I read Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear (when will someone make a movie about the events in this book?!), which really … Continue reading
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Jacob Riis: Bandit’s Roost
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a photojournalistic study of New York City slums in the 1880s. I find this photograph (“Bandit’s Roost”) from the book utterly mesmerizing.
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Booker T. Washington: Teachers & Preachers
“Naturally, most of our people who received some little education became teachers or preachers. While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy … Continue reading
Life Imitating Art – Pt. 219,291
“[The] Native American community…is so behind this movie, it’s fantastic.” — The Lone Ranger Producer Jerry Bruckheimer “Ecstatic American Indians Praise ‘The Lone Ranger’: ‘Finally Our Story Is Being Told,’ Tribespeople Say” — The Onion
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Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95%
The headline pretty much says it all.
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Booker T. Washington: Washington D.C. (II)
“I took great interest in studying the life of our people there closely at that time. I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of … Continue reading