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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... natural that black folks end up snatching more pocketbooks per acre. Think, for example, what would happen if there were only 200 automobiles in the world. Ten automobiles would be placed in Harlem, and the remaining 190 would be ...
... natural odor. I would not categorically assert that black folks don't stink. I would merely suggest that you do your own research. Check and see how many billions of dollars white Americans spend each year for deodorants. Then turn on ...
... natural to assume I will want the Pepsi and the lady, too. I go into my black apartment, sit down in my black living room, in front of my black television set, with my black wife and my black kids, and all of a sudden here comes a white ...
... nature prove to be hostile, but all the time, as one historian put it, there were “dusky savages skulking among the trees.” More than half of the band of settlers died that first winter, and “at one time the living were scarcely able to ...
... nature, Plymouth Rock would never have happened. Storms and foul weather so confused accurate measurings of latitude ... natural hazards. So Plymouth became the best possible site for settling considering the circumstances. Even though ...
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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 | |