The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justicePosted in Articles, Biography, History, Media Archive, United States on 2012-05-21 00:05Z by Steven |
The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice
The News-Times
Danbury, Connecticut
2010-02-24
Antoinette Bosco
Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency.
But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before him, who believed in justice and equal rights for all, and worked to get these.
This is Black History Month, a special time to remember this.
One of these courageous people, too long forgotten, was Walter White, born 117 years ago, called “the man most responsible for the triumph of racial justice” by Maryknoll Father Albert J. Nevins back in the early 1950s.
This priest had put together a book he called “an anthology of Christian literature,” which he hoped would “give you a little more understanding of our complex world, that it will inspire you to a greater appreciation of the principles for which Christ lived and died.”
I found this book, fortunately, at one of the great book fairs put on each year by the Danbury Library.
In it Father Nevins had included a piece written by Walter White titled “Why I Remain a Negro.” With a title like that, my curiosity took over immediately.
His story began, “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blonde. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.”…
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