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...Mexico City and produced a poster of his own, advertising a fictional "Darkie" beer. The poster, captioned "Washington Swung with Darkies," shows the first President's portrait on a dollar bill. "George Washington, the old United States secessionist," said the text, "had an excessive fondness for black slaves, according to legend. He used to sneak out of his home silently at night and head for the slave quarters, where he would abuse them. For us, a Darkie is not a person but a beer which we make for your enjoyment." Within 48 hours, Fonseca had sold...
Hcmd-to-Hcmd Combat. Like America's Negro spirituals, many of Russia's ballads draw their inspiration from the experience of slavery. In the fearful days of Stalin, the bitter, poignant songs of prisoners, which wafted beyond the gates of the slave labor camps, were known and hummed by millions of Soviet citizens. Although the Stalinist terror has since subsided, the memories endure. In magnitizdat, Russians sing of their struggle to maintain integrity in a society that all too often has brutalized its citizens. The stanza of one famous song begins: "Our own war is a hand...
...National Catholic Reporter, set it off by charging that empty convents in Europe were "buying Indian peasant girls from the [Indian] Catholic hierarchy." The Italian press quickly picked up the expose. British, Italian and Indian Parliaments rang with demands for an investigation. An Indian M.P. called the practice "slave trade." Girls were pressed into service as menials, the reports charged, while Indian clergy made a tidy profit...
...joyfully for a can-be Mandy, but obviously adores Mandy as is. Like a gardener trying to force growth from a rare hothouse flower, he regales his daughter with mythology, history, literature, geographical wonders and oddities of nature, "a Nature I never really noticed until it bungled." A lifelong slave of words and reasons, he envies the intensity with which Mandy perceives the world nonverbally through her four acute senses. Fascinated by attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized crab...
...parents and teachers teach us more by their example, by the content of their lives, than by their intended lectures. Explanations of the society we were given come outside of class. Imperialism, racism, capitalism are ideas that seem at least to describe the inhumanity we slave under. For many of us this past year at Harvard, education included the idea of Women's Liberation...