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GR33N wrote:I lol'd on the Nazism one. :D
That civil rights quote is amazing. Wow.
Avoiding the "Communist label"
On 17 December 1951, the Communist Party-affiliated Civil Rights Congress delivered the petition We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People", often shorted to We Charge Genocide, to the United Nations in 1951, arguing that the U.S. federal government, by its failure to act against lynching in the United States, was guilty of genocide under Article II of the UN Genocide Convention. The petition was presented to the United Nations on two separate venues: Paul Robeson, concert singer and activist, to a UN official in New York City, while William L. Patterson, executive director of the CRC, delivered copies of the drafted petition to a UN delegation in Paris. Patterson, the editor of the petition, was the leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African-Americans in cases involving issues of political or racial persecution. As earlier Civil Rights figures like Robeson, Dubois and Patterson became more politically radical (and therefore a targets of Cold War anti-Communism by the US. Government) they lost favor with both mainstream Black America and the NAACP. In order to secure a place in the mainstream and gain the broadest base, it was a matter of survival for the new generation of civil rights activists to openly distance themselves from anything and anyone Communist associated. Even with this distinction however, many civil rights leaders and organizations were still investigated by the FBI under J Edgar Hoover and labeled "Communist" or "subversive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)#Avoiding_the_.22Communist_label.22
bcspace wrote:That civil rights quote is amazing. Wow.
Yeah. Especially because it's true.....
Love how they differentiated between "mainstream Black America" and the NAACP by the way. lol