again ...Here’s something you probably don’t know about Albert Einstein. In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease of white people,” and added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.” He also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to Lincoln students.
The reason Einstein’s visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einstein’s speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.
In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einstein’s life and work, most of them having to do with Einstein’s opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.
This made me so angry. I am so fed up with the disrespect given the President. I am glad that Rev Al Sharpton shut him down. This week alone I heard the word 'boy' and 'tar baby' uttered in reference to the President. What will I hear next week?
How is Buchanan still relevant?? Especially on MSNBC.
ReplyDeleteReally, who opened up the sarcophagus and let the mummy out?
ReplyDeleteThese people really have NO respect!
ReplyDeleteagain ...Here’s something you probably don’t know about Albert Einstein.
ReplyDeleteIn 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease of white people,” and added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.” He also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to Lincoln students.
The reason Einstein’s visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einstein’s speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.
In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einstein’s life and work, most of them having to do with Einstein’s opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.
So not only is Obama a boy. But Pat is now the trickster rabbit in a negro folktale. He's Brer Rabbit in the Briar Patch??
ReplyDeleteThis made me so angry. I am so fed up with the disrespect given the President. I am glad that Rev Al Sharpton shut him down. This week alone I heard the word 'boy' and 'tar baby' uttered in reference to the President. What will I hear next week?
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