Old issues that are still making the rounds
on January 8th, 2008 at 3:03 amThe last time I was on the radio, it was a bit of a challenge for me. Here I was a 37 year old man, father, husband, entrepreneur together with an accomplished author of several books, screenwriter, etc. and another responsible adult talking not about the goings-on in the financial sector, not about the records of presidential hopefuls. Instead the main topics of discussion covered (sigh!) light-skin vs. dark skin and our thoughts on a man who wrote a song about wanting to be White.
While browsing through flickr a while ago, I came across a collection of scanned Jet magazines from back in the early 1950′s (images belong to vieilles_annonces‘. Check out the rest of her photo collections). I am going to post here just a few of them just as an illustration that some things just will never change.
These clippings are from 1952.
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NAACP Symbolically Buries N-Word
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Tell me you have not either took part in or heard any of these conversations in the last few weeks.
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