The Drifters (2016)
The Drifters
“How many white boys you know who are as smart as Ralph Bunche or as well behaved as Jackie Robinson?
One of the true mysteries of our civilization is the American businessman who sits before his television set marveling at the football prowess of Leroy Kelly, the basketball genius of Wilt Chamberlain, the baseball magic of Willie Mays and the boxing superiority of Cassius Clay but remains unwilling to give the Negro workman an even break on the grounds that ‘all niggers are inferior.’ The t...hree most important building blocks of American history are black: anthracite, petroleum, slaves.
Advice to tourists: When you come to Philadelphia in the summer you have two things to look out for: the heat and mortal danger.
My mother bore me in the southern wild.
And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
—Blake For 364 days a year the black man puts up with an agony that would drive the white man to suicide.MoreLess
One of the true mysteries of our civilization is the American businessman who sits before his television set marveling at the football prowess of Leroy Kelly, the basketball genius of Wilt Chamberlain, the baseball magic of Willie Mays and the boxing superiority of Cassius Clay but remains unwilling to give the Negro workman an even break on the grounds that ‘all niggers are inferior.’ The t...hree most important building blocks of American history are black: anthracite, petroleum, slaves.
Advice to tourists: When you come to Philadelphia in the summer you have two things to look out for: the heat and mortal danger.
My mother bore me in the southern wild.
And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
—Blake For 364 days a year the black man puts up with an agony that would drive the white man to suicide.MoreLess
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