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— Sabriga Turgon (@sabriga.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T13:45:00.057Z
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10254213-74-in-1944-a-16-year-old-black-student-in-columbus-ohio
Deuxcents
(24,553 posts)brer cat
(27,185 posts)could be the shortest masterpiece ever written
anciano
(1,993 posts)calimary
(88,295 posts)And it says EVERYTHING.
Cha
(315,357 posts)Brilliant little boy. 💔
Mahalo, she~
TheRickles
(3,027 posts)erronis
(21,754 posts)I don't actually G.A.S. what google or other engines cough up from their intestines. They are trained on so much garbage in that actual historical facts (if known) are submerged in the effluvium of crap.
TheRickles
(3,027 posts)I wasn't trying to make any grand political or philosophical statement about AI or Google or anything else.
erronis
(21,754 posts)I appreciate totally your research!
TheRickles
(3,027 posts)IronLionZion
(50,200 posts)it's from a book. There's also a movie about the author's travels researching the content for the book.
Cha
(315,357 posts)is in a snit again
✌🏻
colorado_ufo
(6,169 posts)I couldn't tell.
maveric
(16,958 posts)swong19104
(547 posts)in the present administration. Starting with Miller.
Hey Miller, at least your bald head will be "colored".
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,914 posts)Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #13)
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Bernardo de La Paz
(59,864 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(25,914 posts)IronLionZion
(50,200 posts)It was adapted into a film called Origin, which shows how she conducted her research for the book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(film)
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,914 posts)IronLionZion
(50,200 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(25,914 posts)Or is it just a repetition of this anecdote?
Ilikepurple
(344 posts)Im failing to understand why this statement needs to be verified to a degree not seemingly required from most posts. Is it because its found in a meme? That involves an insightful idea from a young black American in the 40s? I agree that the truth of the matter is often important, but what seems to be more important is the message of the idea. There is some reason your default position is skepticism even after someone cites a book published by Random House and I hope its just that you have a strong bias against information by meme.
Wiz Imp
(7,821 posts)Either way, I see no reason to question the veracity of the claim in general.
https://gehayi.tumblr.com/post/170390081086/in-1944-a-sixteen-year-old-black-student-in
Perhaps Adamics most memorable reference [to the progress and ongoing exclusion African-Americans faced in WWII] comes early in the chapter and sets the tone for the rest of his discussion: In the spring of 1944 a sixteen-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio won a high school essay contest on What to do with Hitler after the War by writing a single sentence: Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.
But a significant point is that she won the contest.
So not only was the student black, but a black girl. Most of the re-quotes of Adamic omit that fact.
IronLionZion
(50,200 posts)there's a good chance it actually happened considering the historical conditions at that time.
Wiz Imp
(7,821 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,045 posts)She also wrote The Warmth of Other Suns, a history of the migration of black people from the South. Herss the Amazon short description:
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.
littlemissmartypants
(30,670 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(171,960 posts)multigraincracker
(36,593 posts)That was over 60 years ago and what I learned from it has stuck.
sheshe2
(94,591 posts)The book and the movie.
sop
(16,653 posts)It was banned in Florida high schools by DeSantis and his band of book burners, probably in other states as well.
multigraincracker
(36,593 posts)Rebl2
(17,138 posts)with Steve Miller, the one who I believe is really ruining the country.
I meant to say running the country, not ruining. Actually, both words fit.