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"Even semantics have conspired to make
that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus
there are some 120 synonyms for blackness and at least sixty of them are
offensive, such words as blot, soot, grim, devil, and foul. And there are
some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such
words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and innocence. A white lie is better
than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is the "black
sheep." Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be
reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child
sixty ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of
inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby
perpetuate his false sense of superiority. The tendency to ignore the
Negro's contribution to American life and strip him of his personhood is as
old as the earliest history books and as contemporary as the morning's
newspaper."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / 16
August 1967
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Stories of Blackness is a grouping of short
stories written in the venue of folklore. Stories like "How the Skunk
got His Stripe, and "Beauty of the Black Widow, are designed to instill
pride in Blackness. Black is beautiful and nourishing and dynamic.
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