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Albert Einstein teaching a physics class at Lincoln University (HBCU in Pennsylvania) in 1946. The Nobel prize winning scientist said: "The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)One of my favorite people!
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)scratching their heads trying to figure out what in the world he is talking about. Racism?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)education, colour of your socks, is gleefully advanced daily, hourly at election time.
And then they will ask, "why is America divided", as they stare blankly into the TV camera....
I know why, and so do they.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)unless they actually believe/want to believe there is some basis to the division point.
longship
(40,416 posts)R&K
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
WillyT
(72,631 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)This was so good, I actually Tweeted it! Thanks trumad.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)Probably all that socialist propaganda got to him, no doubt
if anyone hasn't.. you should really read the article he wrote entitled "Why Socialism?"
you can read it here ---> http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, trumad.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)You sat in on a class taught by Einstein? Never saw that photo. Way cool.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Amazing.
caraher
(6,278 posts)It evidently never received the attention it deserves.
In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einsteins life and work, most of them having to do with Einsteins opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.
That these omissions need to be recognized and corrected is the contention of Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, authors of Einstein on Race and Racism (Rutgers University Press, 2006). Jerome and Taylor spoke April 3 at an event sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The event also featured remarks by Sylvester James Gates Jr., the John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I admire him the more I learn of his life and words. He wasn't perfect, but he tried his best.
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Good on him.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
marlene.elyse
(20 posts)As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except Negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and here's why:
http://theoleseagull.com/2009/09/abraham-lincoln%E2%80%99s-black-inferiority-white-superiority-quote-from-fourth-lincoln-douglas-debate/
As he was not much of a fan of Black folks.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)He gave a lecture on relativity.
Him being at the university was no small feat. He was quite ill and emaciated. At that time in his life following an abdominal aneurysm, he could not travel. The man was constantly being presented with honorary degrees from universities. An "honor" her referred to as "ostentatious" and had a policy of declining all of them.
However when presented with a degree from Lincoln, he did make the journey. The quote is from the speech he gave when accepting the degree. The turnout for the ceremony was so high that they had to hold it outside, because the school did not have a hall large enough to fit everyone.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)When you post outside the Sports Group, it's usually pretty good stuff. Same with Mad.
calimary
(81,322 posts)Thanks for posting this, trumad! You even inspired others in this thread to add some additional Great quotes!
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)cleduc
(653 posts)at a Ferguson protest ...
freebrew
(1,917 posts)Many try to toss him off, saying he was only smart in math and science.
They haven't read his essays and letters.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Thank you for that quote and picture, trumand.
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)Enough said.