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I had forgotten about this book,
until recent events here in the usa.

I read this a few times when I was
quite young. I couldn't imagine not only
that someone would go to all the trouble
of changing ones hair and skin color, but to also
experience what african americans were still
going through in the 1950s.

It made quite an impression, not only for what
he did, but how the author was treated after the
book was published. Sadly, weird stuff is still being
said about anyone of color these days.

I hope with recent events here that slowly but
surely those with those backwards attitudes
towards others, will disappear sooner
rather than later.

See "NO DIFFERENCE" below.

What should move us to action

is human dignity

the inalienable dignity of the oppressed,

but also the dignity of all of us.

We lose dignity

if we tolerate

the intolerable.

Unknown

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No Difference

Small as a peanut,

Big as a giant,

We're all the same size

When we turn off the light

Rich as a sultan,

Poor as a mite,

We're all worth the same

When we turn off the light.

Red, black or orange,

Yellow or white,

We all look the same

When we turn off the light.

So maybe the way

To make everything right

Is for God to just reach out

And turn off the light!

Shel Silverstein
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