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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... gun, white folks, the police are coming.” Most Americans can understand those original White Panthers. But the Black Panthers make them forget about their own history. Rioting and looting in the black ghettos of America are held up as ...
... gun. Black folks know that America does not believe in nonviolence. We have watched a succession of Presidents send guns and bombs to Vietnam to free a foreigner; we know what white folks would do to free their own families. I speak on ...
... guns and gunpower. Genocide became the substitute for conversion. Folks in America today, both black and white, who say it looks like this country is getting ready to start practicing genocide simply do not know their American history ...
... guns from the very beginning. The Pilgrim fathers would have had to approach the Indians from the standpoint of pure morality, rather than from a standpoint of puritanism, which always had in the background thoughts of acquisition ...
... guns were essential to such acquisition. THE COMPACT MAYFLOWER CABINET While the Mayflower was anchored in Cape Cod, the free adult males gathered in the ship's cabin and drew up what was known as the “Mayflower Compact.” Since the ...
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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 | |