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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... called a Saturday Night Fish Fry. Why do you suppose white America is so upset about black looting? Because black folks have enough sense to take the loot home with them? Many white folks seem to feel that being born black means ...
... called ghettos, in urban areas all over America. White folks, by and large, are scattered throughout the remaining suburban and rural areas. It is only natural that black folks end up snatching more pocketbooks per acre. Think, for ...
... called “a nigger.” The same pattern holds true for any black woman who marries a man of any other ethnic background. Black genes are considered so socially (if not biologically) dominant that a child is designated black regardless of ...
... called “a little white lie.” A hit record a decade or so ago was entitled “Those Little White Lies.” But a big lie is called a “dirty, black lie.” Angel food cake is white. Devil's food cake is black. There is nothing blacker than a ...
... called it!) and one of the leaders of the Mayflower group of “church resisters.” His words stand as the classic articulation of the myth of the Puritan Pilgrim as it survives today. Though the settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not ...
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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 | |