the difference between "Tea Party" types now and 40 years ago?

[wyldwolf]

They could spell better back then.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Also funny how the "communism" insult is still being used incorrectly.

What the fuck is "communist" about integration?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Integration was never an issue in the USSR

When I was there, the only black person I met was another visiting American... :shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

6. Ironic that Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet, had black ancestry

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin.

Although the vast majority of African Americans are unfamiliar with Pushkin's monumental works, most students of literature are at least aware of his "Blackamoor of Peter the Great," an unfinished romance which relates the biographical data of the poet's great-grandfather, Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal his black great-grandfather.

Some early critics wrongly suspected that Pushkin attempted to aggrandize the African lineage of this black forebear by playing up the family tradition that he was an Ethiopian princeling. However, Pushkin certainly did not need to embellish his ancestor's own personal history. For the accomplishments of Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal are proof of what any man - despite his colour - could rise to, given the opportunity. Ibrahim was treated as no less than a member of the royal family at court and, in the biographical notes on him written either by his wife or by someone in her family shortly after his death, the following statement is made:

"....he (Peter) wished to make examples of them and put (Russians) to shame by convincing them that out of every people and even from among wild men - such as Negores, whom our civilized nations assign exclusively to the class of slave, there can be formed men who by dint of application can obtain knowledge and learning and thus become helpful to their monarch."


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/pushkingenealogy.html

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Interesting article. Thanks!

I visited the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, one of my favorite places we went, very impressive... :)

But that doesn't mean that there wasn't any kind of prejudice in the USSR. Because the "union" was comprised of so many different ethnic groups, some threatening because they weren't necessarily friendly or loyal to Moscow (Soviet Georgia comes to mind), ethnic Russians were encouraged to have more children, and were rewarded for doing so... :(

[Xipe Totec]

10. That's why I said ironic

It was not meant as a counter-example; only a jarring reminder of how things ought to be.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. And they were apparently more honest about their agenda...

Nice find... :scared:

[Hekate]

3. That, and the fact that those lovely homemakers were kept busy sewing white hoods for their menfolk

But at least they could spell.

Hekate

[jaxx]

5. They used their kids as sign holders too....isn't that sweet.

And the kids grew up to be the teabaggers of today, raised on hate.

[hughee99]

7. Many were Democrats. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

9. all the signs use proper spelling

:rofl: