“America will never forgive blacks for slavery”

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from August 27, 2015

“America will never forgive blacks for slavery”

Entry in progress—B.P.

“The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz” is an older, similar saying.

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vibrantlife
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“White America will never forgive Black America for slavery” #openimpact @ImpactHub_OAK
8:39 PM - 8 Oct 2014

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“America will never forgive African Americans for slavery.” Is there an equivalent in Britain today? #BerkeleyEnglish122
10:40 PM - 5 Mar 2015

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White America will never forgive Black americans for slavery
June 22, 2015 at 12:53pm

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@jbouie I’m surprised a white-black variant of that old “The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz” line has never caught on.
8:23 PM - 24 Aug 2015

Empire Burlesque
Anti-Social Media: Wealthy NY Wankers Bash the Poor
Chris Floyd Published: 27 August 2015
As the old joke goes, “the Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.” Or another variant: “America will never forgive blacks for slavery.” Oppressors and abusers (and the beneficiaries of past abuses) often project their own guilt, self-loathing and dehumanization onto their victims, then hate them for being evidence – the living (or dead) proof – of the abusers’ moral rot. So it is with the rich and the poor, as a new story at Alternet demonstrates.

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