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Poof! I'm a White Guy Again!
Wed, 01/30/2008 - 15:39 — Bobbo
In 1959, a white reporter named John Howard Griffin artificially darkened his skin and took a trip through the Deep South passing as a Black man. He underwent the kind of humiliation that any Black person would undergo in those times. The racism made him depressed and angry. The skin treatments made him nauseous. When he wrote the book Black Like Me to detail his experiences, he was hanged in effigy and received numerous death threats.
When Bill Clinton became America's First Black President, he underwent no skin treatments. Instead he was awarded that honor by poet Toni Morrison in her now infamous 1998 essay. No one made him sit in the back of Air Force One. No one hanged him in effigy. He remained a beloved world figure.
When Bill Clinton became America's First Black President, he underwent no skin treatments. Instead he was awarded that honor by poet Toni Morrison in her now infamous 1998 essay. No one made him sit in the back of Air Force One. No one hanged him in effigy. He remained a beloved world figure.
It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world.
It's the troubles that cause the rebels.
It's the troubles that cause the rebels.