Impromptu BuddyRead
Reading this at around 20 pages a day was a good idea. It was helpful to absorb the information. The Warmth of Other Suns combines a sweeping historical perspective with vivid intimate portraits of three individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Pershing Foster.
After being viciously attacked by a mob in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “I have seen many demonstrations in the South, but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.”
“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”
“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro’s making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance…. Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual and equal and their interests in the common good are identical…. There is no help or healing in appraising past responsibilities or in present apportioning of praise or blame. The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present; and an understanding of the facts of the problem–a magnanimous understanding by both races–is the first step toward its solution.”
There are so many quotes, educating text, eye opening learning , more empathy than I thought I could gain from the empathy I thought I had. More questioning of myself, my views and my education. I am just finished and still digesting all that I have read. It is a necessary read. So beautifully written and so disturbing that this isn’t taught in every single school.
