Dancing Down the Barricades by Matthew Frye Jacobson

Author:Matthew Frye Jacobson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520391802
Publisher: University of California Press

And I did understand, that hatred got noticed and had to be neutralized, whereas love could be put on hold. I understood that in politics a thousand votes were exactly one thousand times more valuable than one friend. . . . I could handle it from the idiot in the street who pickets or calls me a name or writes a letter. But when the President of the United States does it? To someone he knows. Someone he shook hands with and told, “I won’t forget your help. . . .” My God, if he’ll do this to me, then what hope have the millions of invisible people got?

“It hurt like a motherfucker,” he wrote in Why Me? For her part, May Britt tried to adopt a foreigner’s detachment toward Jim Crow’s codes and meted-out punishments, even suggesting that perhaps Davis could go to the inaugural alone. At the end of the day, she, too, was punished for this racial transgression, when—taking the opposite route of Harry Cohn at Columbia—the lawyers at Twentieth Century Fox let her contract expire shortly after the wedding.44

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