[matt1234]

This is an excerpt of an address by Reed, an American communist, who is buried at the kremlin.

[dontreadthis]

nice find
I figured it was out there

[Sherman Logan]

If we consider the Negroes as an enslaved and oppressed people

In 1920 they were.

Read books from the first few decades of the 20th, and it is astonishing how casually they assume readers will agree with their highly racist comments.

And of course they're entirely correct to have believed that.

Zane Grey and Jack London are two examples, coming from very different backgrounds.

That today's rhetoric of oppression may be unjustified does not mean that of the past was not.