My favourite legend is that Paul Robeson who was one of the biggest stars of his day and the number one African American star by a country mile did a world tour and at the time was going through a political awakening and was very outspoken as a black nationalist.
But he came to England and bunch of Welsh miners who couldn’t afford to see him in London went and got the train to London and serenaded him with his songs in Welsh choir outside the theatre and that made him Communist.
That is how he told it, it’s a legend, but it’s such a beautiful story. Like I’m sure you get the point, but fuck it. Like in America race and class are so intertwined, but Europe no, it’s all fucking class, we are racist as shit, don’t worry about that, but we already did that. Scottish and Irish are racist against each other because they don’t have any theme parks.
Paul Robeson was also an apologist for Stalin, he fucking loved the USSR, but lets be real, he was an apologist for the USSR sounds terrible, but he did it in opposition to being an apologist for the USA, imagine that. All of the famous black Americans were genuinely shocked when they got to go to Europe and it was like of course Europe is still racist, but like it was not the government being racist, it was idiots. Like they didn’t realise that white people were the same race as them.
I know it’s a tough topic and I’m not doing it justice.
By the rivers of Babylon
Where we sat down
E’er we wept, when we remembered Zion
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