politics
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/2014763153192788237?s=20
Paul Robeson, who passed away on this day in 1976, defending himself in the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunt: ‘In Russia, for the first time I felt like a full human being. No colour prejudice like in Mississippi and Washington, where I did not feel the pressure of colour as I feel it in this committee today.’ HUAC: Why did you not stay in Russia? Robeson: ‘Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I’m going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive…