{"id":17112,"date":"2018-02-22T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17112"},"modified":"2018-02-22T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:12:22","slug":"on-schuyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/02\/22\/on-schuyler\/","title":{"rendered":"on schuyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling the need to nod a bit to Black History Month, perhaps regrettably in the manner it&#8217;s mis-honored in some American high schools (my memory is of my Freshman history teacher thinking &#8212; <em>quick!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the 27th, and &#8230; er&#8230; how about this movie about Black soldiers in the Civil War?<\/em>) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; But more especially wanting to get off the beaten path a little bit, I read George Schuyler&#8217;s 1930s farce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_No_More\">Black No More.<\/a><br \/>\nSchuyler, an interesting figure &#8212; a contrarian who started as a Socialist, didn&#8217;t much like any of his Socialist organizations, and at some point just ran to support of Nixon and the John Birch Society &#8212; though, reading two different introductions in two different editions of the book, with the one who is more sympathetic toward his contrarian politics figuring to the line that <em>Nixon was to the left of Clinton<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 This will tend to shuffle the book away from your book stores&#8217; array of black America&#8217;s literature.<\/p>\n<p>The satires on WEB Du Bois, Booker Washington, and Marcus Garvey are the opposite of subtle.\u00c2\u00a0 (So Booker Washington is the president of &#8220;<span class=\"st\"><em> the Dusky River Agricultural Institute, Supreme General of the Knights and Daughters of Kingdom Come and president of the Uncle Tom Memorial Association<\/em><\/span>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 (And I suppose ultimately Garvey was a charlatan, if an interesting figure.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the HL Mencken school of mockery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling the need to nod a bit to Black History Month, perhaps regrettably in the manner it&#8217;s mis-honored in some American high schools (my memory is of my Freshman history teacher thinking &#8212; quick!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the 27th, and &#8230; er&#8230; how about this movie about Black soldiers in the Civil War?) &#8230; &#8230; But more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17113,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions\/17113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}