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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... death.” Who said that? Rap Brown? Eldridge Cleaver? Jerry Rubin? “Don't shoot until you see the whites [of their eyes].” Who said that? Stokely Carmichael? Huey P. Newton? Abbie Hoffman? America continues to condemn radical black and white.
The Myth and Reality of American History Dick Gregory. Abbie Hoffman? America continues to condemn radical black and white youth for not respecting the police. American history books proudly recite the exploits of a white man named Paul ...
... continues, the Pilgrims were also the fathers of the democratic form of government America holds so dear. Upon arriving in the New World, the Pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Compact, which stated that they would be ruled by the will of ...
... continues, crime in the streets of Washington, D.C., will never begin to equal the crime on Capitol Hill. The way Americans seem to think today, about the only way to end hunger in America would be for Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ...
... continues to be interested more in taking pot shots at the moon than in shooting down hunger. America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than with the reality of hungry poor folks. That priority doesn't even make sense ...
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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 | |