USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NIgerianWorldForum] 1946 - Albert Einstein on Being Black in America

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From: Rotimi Ogunsuyi rogunsuiy@yahoo.com [NIgerianWorldForum] <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:36 AM
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] 1946 - Albert Einstein on Being Black in America
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Hear ye, hear ye:

 

"In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am clearly conscious; but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of the "Whites" toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion, particularly toward Negroes. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out." - A. Einstein, 1946

 
Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)

		Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) by Albert Einstein I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more than ten years. And I am writing seriously and warningly. Many readers may ask: "What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?"
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Rotimi Ogunsuyi

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