No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American HistoryHarperCollins, 16 feb 2021 - 400 pagina's Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory—the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and NAACP Image Award–winning author. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, “happy slaves,” and entrepreneurs. Although this absorbing book is more than forty years old, its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With No More Lies, Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past. |
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... becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it when a long train of ... become most despotic. It is dangerous for white America to insist that basic American documents be read by the black ...
... become the victim of the very myths it has created. It is one thing to tell a lie and quite another thing to believe it. Since the days of slavery, white mythology has insisted that black people were of inferior stock. But a quick ...
... become their instant child. I had a young, fresh mind, ready to be programmed. Black folks were not allowed to attend the movie in the white neighborhood, but white America brought the white lady to the black neighborhood. The first ...
... becomes a “white tornado,” and cleans everything in sight. America's rhetoric perpetrates the myth every day that white is clean and pure, and black is dirty and evil. Most white folks don't realize they gave black folks the idea for ...
... become a vegetarian. But even so I feel that white America should never be allowed to utter the word “nonviolence” as long as the Indian is trapped up on the reservation. No group of people has been more nonviolent than the Indians over ...
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The Myth of the Savage | |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | |
The Myth of Black Content | |
The Myth of the Courageous White Settler and the Free Frontier | |
The Myth of the MasonDixon Line | |
The Myth of Free Enterprise | |
The Myth of Emancipation | |
The Myth of the Bootstrap | |
The Myth of the Good Neighbor | |
The Myth of American Rhetoric | |
The Myth of Free Elections | |
Dr Martin Luther Kings Last Message to America | |
Index | |
About the Author | |