[lit-ideas] Re: Question
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:47:00 -0400
This explains William Blake's "lest you turn an angel from your door". All
he's doing is embracing hierarchy. What a disappointment.
For Steve, you can lead a horse to water ...
> [Original Message]
> From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/7/2006 7:44:15 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Question
>
> On 9/8/06, Steve Chilson <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I read somewhere, whether or not it is true of course is left to having
> > read it somewhere - but anyway, read somewhere that during WW2, Alabama
> > or some place nearby, they let Nazi prisoners being housed in that state
> > freedom that they wouldn't give the blacks who were American. Is that
> > true or just urban mirth?
>
> I wouldn't know about that, though I've heard similar rumors. I
> recall, however, a belief attributed to the ancient Greeks that the
> stranger at the door should be treated hospitably, since the gods
> sometimes take on human form to walk among us mortals. I also recall
> accounts of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, an occasion on which all sorts
> of darkly colored royalty were treated with pomp and circumstance.
>
> And, on a final note, I remember just recently hearing one of my
> Georgia relatives mention something we heard from our grandmother when
> the word "nigger" came up: "There are black niggers and white niggers,
> but a nigger's a nigger." Andy's remark was spot on. The presumption
> was that the black you knew as a nigger was a nigger. A stranger,
> especially with more "Aryan" features and a foreign accent--he might
> be something else.
>
> John
>
>
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