Thank you, Professor Spivey for sharing this story with such power. I confess that in all my years, I was unaware of Richard Dawson‘s story. And so I did burst out sobbing, in tears upon reading your entry, “At age 98,… he acknowledged to an instructor that he didn’t know how to read and would like to.”
I can’t wait to read Richard Dawson’s book, in part because I share with him the foundational outlook that every day is a good day.
Yellow caution tape surrounding libraries! These un-American book bans must end. Dear Kamala gives hope.🙏🌊
Looking back at the years of my public education I now recognize so much was lying to cover up the shame of genocide, greed, and inhumane white entitlement masquerading as "Manifest Destiny." These forms of social conditioning harm all people. All are victimized by the cover up. James Baldwin said that Black people could be free if white people could free ourselves from all the lies that keep us in line. Dr. King said none are free until all are free. Are we listening?
The very revealing thing about the life of Richard Dawson is that it was simply the simple story of a black man who lived during the height of Jim Crow and "lived to tell it". My grandpa would have told you the same thing, his daddy and even my daddy and quiet as it's kept, I can tell you stories to delight and intrigue audiences in story, songs, dances, books, stage and on screen. Mr. Spivey he wrote it down and put it in a book okay, but millions had lived experiences like his. His life was not an anomaly. Here is a dictionary word for race study -Synonym (anomaly) Aberration, abnormality, deviation, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, rarity. The brother was a black boy growing up in America who got old, sat back, recollected and put it down for "posterity". Here we define posterity as "all future generations of people". "The descendants of a person" Sentence use-"God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven". Some-White- people as so anal *defined as "involving, relating to, or situated near the anus". In Psychoanalysis (Freudian psychoanalysis) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development supposedly preoccupied with the anus and defecation. See informal use: anal-retentive. Sentence use "he's anal about things like that". Hey racist are anal.
Ordered the book. Thanks for your informative substack. I hope to hang on to it in order to share with my granddaughters when they are old enough to actually understand the truth. In the meantime I hope to share with others who are open to some truth. Another difficult one I read was Yellow Wife. Painful!
Thank you, Professor Spivey for sharing this story with such power. I confess that in all my years, I was unaware of Richard Dawson‘s story. And so I did burst out sobbing, in tears upon reading your entry, “At age 98,… he acknowledged to an instructor that he didn’t know how to read and would like to.”
I can’t wait to read Richard Dawson’s book, in part because I share with him the foundational outlook that every day is a good day.
Yellow caution tape surrounding libraries! These un-American book bans must end. Dear Kamala gives hope.🙏🌊
Looking back at the years of my public education I now recognize so much was lying to cover up the shame of genocide, greed, and inhumane white entitlement masquerading as "Manifest Destiny." These forms of social conditioning harm all people. All are victimized by the cover up. James Baldwin said that Black people could be free if white people could free ourselves from all the lies that keep us in line. Dr. King said none are free until all are free. Are we listening?
Thank you for this story. George Dawson's story is so inspirational.
Ordered Dawson’s book. Will read it and then donate it to our local elementary or high school library.
The very revealing thing about the life of Richard Dawson is that it was simply the simple story of a black man who lived during the height of Jim Crow and "lived to tell it". My grandpa would have told you the same thing, his daddy and even my daddy and quiet as it's kept, I can tell you stories to delight and intrigue audiences in story, songs, dances, books, stage and on screen. Mr. Spivey he wrote it down and put it in a book okay, but millions had lived experiences like his. His life was not an anomaly. Here is a dictionary word for race study -Synonym (anomaly) Aberration, abnormality, deviation, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, rarity. The brother was a black boy growing up in America who got old, sat back, recollected and put it down for "posterity". Here we define posterity as "all future generations of people". "The descendants of a person" Sentence use-"God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven". Some-White- people as so anal *defined as "involving, relating to, or situated near the anus". In Psychoanalysis (Freudian psychoanalysis) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development supposedly preoccupied with the anus and defecation. See informal use: anal-retentive. Sentence use "he's anal about things like that". Hey racist are anal.
Thanks for the book review Mr. Spivey .
Truth sometimes certainly is more remarkable than fiction.
I ordered it and look forward to reading it. Thank you!
Just queued it up for my next read. Thanks, I'll send in my book report when done. DD
Please let me know if you find anything a 7th-grader couldn't handle?
Ordered the book. Thanks for your informative substack. I hope to hang on to it in order to share with my granddaughters when they are old enough to actually understand the truth. In the meantime I hope to share with others who are open to some truth. Another difficult one I read was Yellow Wife. Painful!