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Category Archives: African American
The Cement Angel and the Murder of a Child
Earl Varner’s Mother The old African American woman cried silently, spoke a sentence of two, sniffed and wiped her hands across her face, spoke another few sentences, and cried again. She repeated this as long as we talked. The woman, … Continue reading
Geography of Hope
Memory I have a memory. It is of a friend so cut off from all that was accepted that she seems almost a breath, but she was important. I remember her face right as the tips of our breasts began … Continue reading
Posted in incest, Inequality, Injustice, Poverty, white Americans
Tagged childhood, Friendship, geography, incest, U.S - Mexico Border, white-Americans
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“Dead Negroes in Swamp”
[June 7, 2020: This will add history to the events of the past two weeks.] White Mob Closes In Mary Robinson and I were writing a book about her life. The daughter of African American share croppers in Alabama, she … Continue reading
God Smiled
The Child Who Spoke Poetry One moonless night, when we lived in rural New Mexico, I drove eleven-year-old Toni Jones home. As usual, she had spent the weekend with my husband, family, and me. It was a normal weekend. She … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Injustice, love. mother, murder, poverty, Prisons, Racism, religion
Tagged African American, children, God, grief, murder, poverty, Prostitution
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Death of the Black Doll
The Black Doll The sobbing African American girl hurled the black doll onto the ground and started to chop it with a hoe. The broken-hearted child, Mary Robinson, was born in 1943, the daughter of black sharecroppers. She grew up … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Inequality, Injustice, Uncategorized
Tagged African American, black doll, civil rights, history, inferiority, prejudice, racism, resistance, self-hatred, sharecroppers, unions
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Ten-Gallon Crock
Electric Chair Helen D., an old woman with the booming voice, clasped her hands under her heavy breasts. “Geez, I was just a girl. I had four babies of my own at home, a sick husband, and all my brothers … Continue reading
Posted in abortion, birth control, Health care, Inequality, Injustice, miners, poverty, Uncategorized, white Americans, widows
Tagged abortion, birth control, Inequality, injustice, miners, poverty, Supreme Court, white Americans, Women's Issues
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Prisoners and Peas
The Values of Her Mother Mary Robinson, an African American woman from Alabama, was 57 years-old when we talked in 2000. I was an oral historian, and my tape recorder ran on a nearby chair. Mary described a terrifying experience … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Distrust, Inequality, Injustice, love. mother, Poverty, poverty, Prisons, Racism, Social Justice, Uncategorized, white Americans
Tagged African Americans, fear, food, goodness, love, mother, poverty, prisoners, sharecroppers, sharing, sheriffs, white Americans
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