The End of Nothing.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
My Former Americans, presenting a true patriot: Toyin Agbetu
Thank God. Someone gets it. His name is Toyin Agbetu. He stood up yesterday, and told the two Queens what they could do with their pomp and commemoration for 200 years of triangle slave trading.
We should all join in demanding an end to government-sponsored Hollywood melodrama. How? Instead of spending all that money for a bunch of London aristocrats to throw themselves a sorrow party, spend it on a book mobile for poor neighborhoods.
You? Go teach a kid to read.
"If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master--to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave."
--Frederick Douglas
Vivé le resistance
We should all join in demanding an end to government-sponsored Hollywood melodrama. How? Instead of spending all that money for a bunch of London aristocrats to throw themselves a sorrow party, spend it on a book mobile for poor neighborhoods.
You? Go teach a kid to read.
"If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master--to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave."
--Frederick Douglas
Vivé le resistance
:: posted by Martin B, 3/28/2007 12:02:00 PM
