Although such interpretations have a superficial validity, in the last analysis the major peculiarities of Southern politics go back to the Negro.
You can trace that back to the house Negroes and the field Negroes - what do you think that was about?
From New York to Denver to California, where "everyone looked like a broken-down movie extra", to Chicago "C Jam Blues played by sad-eyed negroes" and back to "the sad red earth" of Denver.
Yet German thought contained other, more egalitarian strains, going back to Johann Gottfried Herder, who, in his "Negro Idylls," of 1797, adopted the point of view of oppressed African peoples.
He was not opposed to blacks because of the color of their skin but their "degrading vices", believing that the "inferior Negro should go back to Africa".
Kennedy himself dismissed any idea of enforcing a return of the Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip: "It's like a Negro wanting to go back to Mississippi, isn't it".
"Body Marxist!" Luther said, turning his back to her. "Then be an American Negro," she said laughingly, "and refill our glasses while I talk to Lee".
He expressed dislike for other strategies like rebellion, secession, or the various Back to Africa movements — which Harris described as "Negro Zionism" — led by such figures as Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie I.
Unprovoked, a woman in her 50s began hurling abuse at her, calling her a "bastard negro" and telling her to go back to her own country.
After that, rich white Americans started an integrated Association dedicated to the proposition that Negro Americans still needed advancement and they went back to being Colored People.
