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The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

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This poetry is just as relevant today as the day it was written. The vast majority of it could be describing life right now in the middle of 2020. This should be studied in schools to show students the human side of the things they should be studying, but often are not, in their history classes. Wonderful, powerful, brilliant. I can‘t say enough good things about Hughes and this collection.
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

As a historian, I feel like I have to defend and justify my chosen field and my profession everyday, trying to convince people of this very thing. It‘s become a cliche that not learning from history dooms people to repeat it; meanwhile, we‘re sitting here repeating it. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics More and more historians have to defend ourselves against an insistence that we uphold great man history as the ONLY history, as real history, and the idea that historians are the least knowledgable about history because we want to include as many voices and experiences as possible. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics This is possibly the most dangerous conspiracy theory out there right now, because it threatens to silence additional voices and destroy evidence that doesn‘t fit the white supremacist view of America. #LangstonHughes #ThePantherAndTheLash #poetry #GreatManHistory #WomenAlsoKnowHistory (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa this is what a conspiracy theory really looks like. “Historians know the least about our real history. They just want to rewrite it.” It doesn‘t matter what evidence we can show that there have always been Muslims and Jews in America, or that the idea of Christian America didn‘t exist before the Great Depression, the fact we can produce that evidence just proves, to them, their point. 4y

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GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa We‘re changing the story and not telling the real story, the “white, male, Protestant” story. No amount of evidence will make them change their minds and they will willingly admit that. Your views are based on evidence and should valid evidence begin to show a different reality, your beliefs and views would shift with that. We‘re all being gaslighted. We are NOT the conspiracy theorists. (edited) 4y

Gaylagal2 @GingerAntics Thank you, it just can't be said enough. I'm not sure exactly where factual history became arguable and called conspiracy (oh I know - Drump), but I for one am dam sick of it. I'll always be on the side of facts, science and historical data 🤙👊 4y

GingerAntics @Gaylagal2 💙💙💙 there are times it seems that those of use who believe in scientific and historical data and fact are the majority, but there are far more where it seems most people are just clueless and even if they‘re not aggressively against what you‘re saying like the Cheeto‘s base, there are still people who will say “yeah, but there are other things” and they just act like we‘re not telling the whole story. 🙄 4y

Gaylagal2 My sentiment exactly 🤓 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes...both history and science are not set in stone, they change as we learn more. New studies prove this, or discover that, just like new digs and writings emerge to change our views of history. That doesn‘t make them wrong, in fact I‘d argue the fact that they are willing to change with new evidence makes them more reliable. But sometimes I feel like we are entering another “Dark” Age, where knowledge is poopooed, but everyone‘s opinion ... (edited) 4y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...is as good as anyone else‘s, facts or no. ☹️ 4y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I fear the same thing. I find it ironic that the very people who complain about political correctness are the same ones that want their opinion treated as fact whether it‘s supported by fact, reality, or just their own insanity and get angry if you agree to this. 🙄 Drives me nuts. I‘m sorry, but Christianity has gone too far, making everything that isn‘t in the bible unreliable. It disgusts me. 4y

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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

This seemed to fit with another book I‘m current reading. The other book talked about freedom in a very immature way. This is a far more mature view of freedom, aware of the fact that freedom doesn‘t just magically happen and that it‘s no really available to everyone. If you can‘t bake, freedom just stays on someone else‘s cake, as it were.
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

This is an interesting role reversal. I think I read this 3-4 times. 💙💙💙
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

Another poem that could so easily be written today.
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

Sadly, this is still true (apart from the president part).
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

I‘m surprised this isn‘t Trump‘s 2020 campaign slogan. It‘s not like he‘s too subtle for that sort of thing.
It‘s truly stunning how much of this is clearly about the 1960s, but also perfectly describes Trump‘s America.
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

This is a great dedication.
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GingerAntics

The Panther and the Lash | Langston Hughes

Reading this little gem next in my adventure in poetry.
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MayJasper I like the sound of poetry adventures. 😊 4y

GingerAntics @MayJasper I never really read poetry before this year. I tried a couple times and felt ridiculous (so I would stop after a poem or two), but I decided this year I was going to keep reading poetry all year and dubbed it my 2020 adventure in poetry. Turns out I really like poetry. 4y

MayJasper I am trying to get in to poetry too. I am borrowing ebooks from the library. I like quite easily accessible poems. I find some just hard work. I especially like humour in poetry. 4y

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GingerAntics @MayJasper yeah, I started my adventure with Walt Whitman. Not the best place to start. I‘m going to try him again at the end of the ear. I‘ve got an audiobook of Leaves of Grass. I‘m hoping that helps. We‘ll see. I‘m thinking of doing a 2021 Adventure in Poetry (or 21 Adventures in Poetry or some kind of fun title) if you‘d like to join in. 4y

MayJasper Yes I would like to join in 😊 4y

GingerAntics @MayJasper you got it!!! 4y

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