George Fraser Quotes
We are better off than all the other Black people in the entire world. We are the hope and aspiration of Blacks in the rest of the world.
George Fraser, Author, State of Black America Forum, February 26, 2005
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Dr. Ambrose was the senior Black education official in the country. Note his title which was given to him by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
A Black church had been bombed in Birmingham, Alabama among the general racial indignity visited upon the Blacks of that city. King’s conversation was not generally known until 2003 when the secretly recorded conversations of the Kennedy Presidency were released, transcribed and analyzed. Shortly after the conversation, JFK called five white leaders of Birmingham and upbraided them about the lack of progress in Birmingham.
Despite the critical need of the war, racism was so extensive in the WWII military that Blacks were relegated to menial duty of cooking, truck driving and construction but were actually not allowed to fight at the beginning despite the fact that many had volunteered. Many whites—especially the southerners—were convinced that Negroes could not fight, that they lacked the courage and commitment. The need for troops in the Pacific theater was so great that in the invasion of Saipan that was so difficult, Black troops were committed to the fight and performed brilliantly. The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Vandergrift was not only the first Marine 4 star general who was on active duty, but he personally was a recipient of the Medal of Honor. When he spoke, all marines and many others in the service listened. This was the break-though. Negroes in combat was no longer some kind of social experiment for most Marines except the most vitriolic rascists.
Ironically Fort-Whiteman was arrested in Moscow in one of Stalin’s massive purges and sent to a Soviet Gulag where he died of starvation. He was one of several Americans who were Stalinist victims. Ironically, he was right about Blacks and revolutionary change, but whereas he thought the “revolution” would be a socialist and communist one, the “Civil Rights Revolution” was a legal, cultural and intellectual one. However, statements like this were taken advantage of by white racists who saw in every attempt to right the wrong of racial discrimination, a communist revolution in the making.
Note that Nixon attributed Rogers views on Blacks to the fact that Roers was from New York City which Nixon viewed as a hotbed of liberals and minorities. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups. The implication of the inbreeding is a high percentage of mental retardation. It was never been established that the Black slaves in America were inbred as they came from many different tribes and slave owners did not attempt to have slaves of a single or even two tribes. There was a great deal of diversity. If anything Southern Whites were in danger of inbreeding as it was the custom for many first cousins to marry. This was just another of Nixon’s hateful, racial remarks based on no foundation of fact.
At the time segregation was legal, Southern Blacks could not vote, racism was rampant, and a Black President seemed impossible.
He was one of the people who popularized the term “Black Power”
