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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... folks don't want to read any of that old white stuff.” The principal answered, “Well, you won't graduate.” Naturally I replied, “Then lay it on me right now.” So I started reading, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men ...
... white America to insist that basic American documents be read by the black, poor, and oppressed, because such people are just naive enough to go out and do what the founding fathers said oppressed people should do. Evidently white ...
... folks anymore—soldiers who can be turned on and off at random. White America has developed a peculiar population blindness in recalling and reciting American history. Traditional American history is a myth and can only be accepted when ...
... 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 horrible ...
... 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 example, what would happen if there were only 200 ...
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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 | |