In a message dated 7/26/2004 9:57:10 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note ("America never was America to me/ And yet I swear this oathâ/ America will be!"), but the future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words probably looked a lot like Stalinist Russia.<
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Talk about cheap Red baiting.
I was quoting a Slate.com article. My own views on Langston Hughes have nothing to do with that. I am actually quite partial to "Stalinist" artists such as Hughes, Neruda, Mike Gold and the Hollywood screenwriters such as Abraham Polonsky.
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