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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
That's all well and good, but I've moved far past my youthful idealism of what "should" and "shouldn't" happen, and am more interested in how to win hearts and minds. And the reality is that for many people, "imagine if he was white," or seeing it happen to a white grandpa are more effective than seeing it happen to a 46-year-old poor black person in what looks like a poor part of town.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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