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From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 1:34:03 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Untold African history: Black Russians
society
Russia’s Black Community
Kevin O’Flynn , Radio Free Europe
This is just so frelling weird, because one of Russia's greatest heroes,
Aleksandr Nevsky, was reputedly of African-Arabic ancestry.
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Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Untold African history: Black Russians
Dude, that Black Obama is a watermelon seller? I wonder if the irony of that
is lost on a Russian?
I remember many stories about blacks in Russia and the pain they suffer
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Russia’s
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*Kevin O’Flynn*, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Untold African history: Black Russians
Dude, that Black Obama is a watermelon seller? I wonder if the irony of
that is lost on a Russian?
I remember many stories about blacks in Russia and the pain they suffer.
Remember a few short years ago there was violence
You're right, Mr Worf, and forgive me for not delivering all the facts.
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I think another motivation for folks to leave the US at the time was the
lynchings that were going on. What I don't understand is why folks didn't go
to Canada.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
You're right, Mr Worf, and forgive me for not
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All this is very fascinating.
Amy
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Untold African history: Black Russians
Not all of the Africans in Russia were there because of slavery. Pushkin's
grand father was Ethiopian royalty and was a guest of the court. There are
others as well
Maybe 1920s Canada didn't seem progressive enough for them? There was a lot
of intellectual growth during that period, but conservatism killed it in
this country.
There is a documentary on this called Black Russians by Kara Lynch, but it
is not available from Netflix.
(which is something that
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All this is very fascinating.
Amy
*Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Untold African history: Black Russians
Not all of the Africans in Russia were there because of slavery. Pushkin's
grand father was Ethiopian royalty and was a guest of the court
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Russia’s
Black Community
*Kevin O’Flynn*, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Image 1: “African-Russians activists demonstrate in a march against racism
in the
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