I walk toward the library and reach for the door.
That's why we are in the condition we are in today, the woman said.
What else is there if we do not vote?
***
Before December 8, 1941, when the U.S. declared war against fascism, Langston Hughes, working as a reporter for the New Masses, joined the Abraham Brigade in Spain to fight fascism. This was 1936 and Hughes was not alone.
Activists such as James Yates and Alonzo Watson, (the first Black volunteer killed in action, February 25, 1937), did not hesitate to determine a course of action. They did not confer with "leaders" or the White House, and when Mussolini in 1935 invaded Ethiopia, Blacks in the Diaspora, able and willing, boarded to ship to fight fascism.
These Black volunteers decided on their own to directly fight fascism, as they were doing so at home, abroad, not, as the Abraham Lincoln Bridge (ALB) website would have readers believe, as "idealistic," childish dreamers or adventurers, but as informed citizens in touch with the reality at home, a reality of oppression much akin to a Hitler or Mussolini brand of fascism.
These activists, thinkers, poets, writers, everyday Black citizens, were informed, the ABL website suggests by their embrace of "radical ideologies" and "new militancy" which particularly intensified after World War I.
The ABL website was thoughtful enough to mention the American pastime activity of lynching and the fear mongering that surrounded the Scottsboro case. But, all in all, these were the "radical" Blacks.
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