Category: But We’s White Folks . . .
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Who are the Caucasians, and are they mixed?
Published on Quora.com November, 2021 Quora has since deleted this answer as “Hate Speech” and is only viewable here. Your opinion on their judgment is welcome in the comments below. Linda Keres Carter — I assimilated to the minority like the extinct one I’m from. The Caucasians are people who live in the Caucasus mountains. They…
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How Serbs and Black Americans Are Alike
Okay, so I keep getting this skeptical look on everybody’s face when I say “We’re so alike!” Nobody wants to believe me. How could some obscure Europeans (Serbs) that our very own CIA labeled fascist be like African Americans? That makes no sense. It’s been hard for me to summarize since I’ve observed so many…
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The Confederate Flag Debate: What it Indicates
My nephew, who’s African American, shared this on his Facebook page. We had a good laugh about the butt flags. But seriously, I’m hearing a lot of White people talking about how this damn Confederate flag business is not a big deal, that First Amendment rights are being trampled, and there are lots of other…
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Green Velvet
I’m reading Rebecca West’s “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.” She’s considered the leading female intellectual of the first half of the twentieth century writing in the English language. This was considered her magnum opus. It’s supposedly a travel log, but it’s really West on the Balkans through the ages. She loved us. The book’s 1200…
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Lords and Peasants, All
Stanislav Vinaver, Serb poet, is our tour guide of 1935 Belgrade. Brilliant, witty, incessantly chatty, a renowned seducer. We shall be entertained.