Posted on 05/21/2004 8:39:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
Insiders say John Kerry has settled on "Let America Be America Again" as the motto and theme of his presidential campaign. The line comes from a Langston Hughes poem Kerry quoted at an NAACP event in Kansas. Apparently the pedantic St. Paul's and Yale graduate didn't bother to note that it was written for an International Workers Order (IWO) pamphlet called A New Song. The IWO was an officially cited affiliate of the Communist Party, and Hughes was so committed a Stalinist that he formally endorsed the Bolshevik purges.
Then there is Langston Hughes' poem "Goodbye Christ," written for the (Communist) Negro Worker. It starts:
Listen Christ, You did alright in your day, I reckon -- But that day's gone now. They ghosted you up a swell story, too. Called it Bible -- but it's dead now. ... Make way for a new guy with no religion at all -- A real guy named Marx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker ME I said, ME! ..."
Great choice, Kerry. Just what kind of a lunatic is this guy?
On the other hand....maybe he did.
I just wish the Republicans would act like Republicans again.
No wonder Langston Hughes is the toast of Lawrence...
All the the retired Commies that live there sit around Milton's and wax rapsodical about the "good old days".
Kerry probably used it as a knock off of the line about, "Let Reagan be Reagan." Just a guess.
Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
[snip]
Of course Kerry knows - he's spent his whole life dedicated to the ideals of Marxism and has a record a mile long demonstrating his perpetual support for some of the most dispicable despots in world history including the likes of Daniel Ortega, the butcher of Managua, and met secretly in France with the North Vietnamese communists during our time of war.
lest I forget his support of Saddam Hussein in 1991 and his stalwart opposition to the gulf war (despite his flip flops & lying about his original votes supporting Saddam, against Kuwait, back during that era)
God help him if Americans start acting like Americans again.
"America never was America to me!
Especially considering that he believes the following:
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--And finding only the same old stupid planOf dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
Which explains why all the millions of immigrants turned right around and went back to lovely, war-torn, tyrant-infested Europe.
I would almost think that there are Freepers infiltrated into his campaign.
Regards,
bttt
This guy (Hughes) got an official US postal stamp last year or a couple of years ago. Robeson got one this year. Disgusting.
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No offense, but didn't we break this like 72 hours ago at www.crushkerry.com?
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