In the wake of bi-racial candidate, Obama's nomination for US presidency, an excerpt from *Langston Hughes poem (Cultural exchange) (1902-1967)* *..........* *You know, right at Christmas They asked me if my blackness, Would it rub off? I said, Ask your mama.
Dreams and nightmares! Nightmares, dreams, oh! Dreaming that the Negroes Of the South have taken over-- Voted all the Dixiecrats* Right out of power-- Comes the COLORED HOUR: Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia, Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser, A. Philip Randolph the High Grand Worthy. In white pillared mansions Sitting on their wide verandas, Wealthy Negroes have white servants, White sharecroppers work the black plantations, And colored children have white mammies: Mammy Faubus Mammy Eastland Mammy Wallace Dear, dear darling old white mammies-- Sometimes even buried with our family. Dear old Mammy Faubus! Culture, they say, is a two-way street: Hand me my mint julep, mammny. Hurry up! Make haste! Langston Hughes * ** **PS: * DIXIECRATS *The States' Rights Democratic Party was a short-lived splinter group that broke from the **Democratic Party*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party> * in 1948. The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed **racial integration*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration> * and wanted to retain **Jim Crow laws*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_law> * and **racial segregation*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation> *. The party's slogan was "Segregation Forever!" Members of the States' Rights Democratic Party were often known as* *Dixiecrats.* ** * * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
