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Let America Be America Again: And Other Poems | Langston Hughes

Thanks to @Karisa for introducing me to this poem. I‘ve read it over and over again this morning and also listened to James Earl Jones read it, plus this 🔥 video: https://youtu.be/AXz1wypzPS8?si=ouyKvgswv07T6CKB
Read it, listen to it, share it. And be in awe that this was written in 1935! Yet here we are. #readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

CBee Entire poem: https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again 23h

CBee @TheBookHippie @dabbe @AmyG @Chrissyreadit @Amiable @Susanita @Suet624 @TheLudicReader @Deblovestoread 23h

CBee @lil1inblue ♥️ 23h

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TheBookHippie 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 23h

Deblovestoread My first time, too. I‘ll be rereading regularly. Thanks, Cyd 💙 23h

Suet624 💕💕💕💕 22h

Amiable James Earl Jones reading it ?? YES, PLEASE 💙💙💙🙌🏼 22h

Sace ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙 Expecting your country to live up to its ideals *is* patriotic. Recognizing human dignity is What we should strive for. Thank you for this poem. 22h

Sace And the entire poem: *chef‘s kiss* 22h

AmyG Oooo James Earl Jones? Go Blue!!! He is a Michigan man….wolverine. 22h

AmyG As for the poem….amazing. 22h

lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 💓 💓 I'm not crying.... 22h

CBee @Amiable yes! Look it up on YouTube. It‘s phenomenal. 22h

CBee @Sace yes, exactly ♥️ 22h

CBee @lil1inblue I cried a bit too ♥️ 22h

CBee @AmyG he was born in my home state. Morgan Freeman too! Both voices I could listen to all day ♥️ (edited) 22h

Chrissyreadit wow!! We are a country of very different ideals- built on the backs of people who have been damaged over and over again by the wealthy and elite. I am disgusted by the evil and corruption and anyone who thinks it is acceptable. I am in awe of the resilience and hope of so many marginalized communities. Thank you for sharing this! 22h

CBee @Chrissyreadit ♥️♥️♥️ 21h

Deblovestoread Video…AMAZING! 21h

dabbe Now THIS is the true MAGA that we can all get behind. A new go-to creed. Thanks, Cyd. 💙🤍♥️ 21h

CBee @Deblovestoread I got chills! 18h

CBee @dabbe yes it is ♥️♥️ 18h

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Honey Badger Don't Care: Randall's Guide to Crazy, Nastyass Animals | Randall

@dabbe
I do not care that i have searched high and low for actual antifa group and can‘t find one to join! I am now a proud founding member of the #antifabookclub
Anyone can join- i do not care what you read, when you read or how you read….
#wdncw
#readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires

AmyG, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Susanita, TheLudicReader, Suet624, Deblovestoread, CBee

AmyG I am reading Cultish….so I already started. 2d

Chrissyreadit @AmyG 🎉🎉🎉🎉 2d

dabbe I'm in! 🙋‍♀️ Does reading about fanatic serial killers count? 2d

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Deblovestoread Yes! I‘ll let you know what I‘m reading soon. 2d

IriDas How anarchical of you. 😊 Sounds like a great book club. Count me in. (edited) 2d

Amiable Hell yeah! 🙌🏼 @dabbe, are you reading this one? I just bought it but haven‘t started yet:

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Prairiegirl_reading I‘m in! I love this! 2d

lil1inblue Yes, please! 🤩 Count me in! Right now, I'm reading this (among others, of course).

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ncsufoxes Genius, I wish I‘d thought of it sooner. I just started reading the tagged book. About the Klan trying to take over the US in the 1920s. It‘s also slightly disturbing how some of it can relate to today.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

AllDebooks Love this. Please count me in. I'm reading

The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online

Suet624 Thank you for starting this. I already have some books. I‘m committed to reading, but once I‘m done with this summer reading, I‘ll be participating more in this club. 2d

TheBookHippie I‘m in I am going to join @Librarybelle in her over the fourth reading of

Common Sense

TheBookHippie Then I‘m getting my stack from the library on how to do like the black panthers and get my kids fed ✊🏼 2d

TheBookHippie @AmyG word … that book freaked me right out. 2d

Chrissyreadit @Suet624 it‘s about any book you are reading!! my plan is to identify anti fascism in some way shape or form no matter the book just because!!! so just share the hashtag when you read something that fits any way you deem it to! 2d

dabbe @Amiable Not yet, but it's stacked! I'm still reading one that @AmyG sent to me, and it's getting good!

Thirteen Steps Down

AmyG I am happy you are enjoying it @dabbe 2d

JenReadsAlot @ncsufoxes That was good and a bit terrifying! 2d

Chrissyreadit @ncsufoxes That book sounds intense and important- i am stacking it. 2d

Amiable @ncsufoxes I read that one last summer —a great read! And also disturbingly relevant to the present time. 2d

ElizaMarie Love this! And love how much my #TBR will grow because of this :) 2d

peaKnit I‘m in! What in the dumpster fire is going on!? 2d

kspenmoll I am in too. Sounds perfect! I will join in. @Librarybelle @TheBookHippie in reading Common Sense July 4. Copy we have is highlighted 😀 (edited) 2d

CBee I‘m also in! If my reading slump ever goes away 😭😭 2d

CBee @Amiable @dabbe are you both fascinated by serial killers like I am? 🫣 1d

dabbe @CBee Pervertally (created a new adverb!), yes. CHARLES MANSON? TED BUNDY? CRIMINAL MINDS? 👋🏻

My drink has kicked in. There already IS a word: PERVERTEDLY. 🤦🏼‍♀️ (edited) 1d

CBee @dabbe @Amiable I wrote a research paper on serial killers for my abnormal psych class, years ago. I got an A 😁 So yeah, a bit fascinated lol 1d

dabbe @CBee Ooh, do you still have it? I'd LOVE to read it!!!! 1d

CBee @dabbe I don‘t - that was gosh, 1998 or so? I‘m flattered you‘d like to read it 😊 1d

CBee @dabbe please remind me sometime to tell you about the literary magazine my mom started at her school. 1d

Dilara Can I join? I am reading Producteurs et parasites: l'imaginaire si désirable du Rassemblement national which is about the way reactionary, anti-social, anti-egalitarian values have spread and are paving the way for the far right.

Producteurs et parasites: L'imaginaire si d�sirable du Rassemblement national

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼🥳👌🏼💝...🆒😉👍🏼 I'm such a sluggish reader and I've quit mail-ordering again (therefore it's difficult to seek out specific books), so this kind of book club is a perfect readers club!

I'm currently reading, To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose already has a bit of racism and oppression weaved into the storyline.

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AnnCrystal Fictional books count?? 1d

Amiable @CBee @dabbe I went through a period in my 20s when I read everything I could find on serial killers. I don‘t know why but I was completely obsessed. 😳🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

Amiable @AnnCrystal Fiction books can absolutely count! @Chrissyreadit kicked off the new hashtag #overcomingevilempires with a few fiction titles. 1d

Chrissyreadit @AnnCrystal any book counts as long as there are no overt, subvert, subliminal messages supporting authoritarian/fascist govt and beliefs…. I love that even romances today focus on consent, overcoming greed and overcoming harmful people in power (Ali Hazelwood and Bride come to mind specifically) 1d

CBee @Amiable same!! It‘s a fascination with the why, I think. How could someone get to that place? It‘s why I‘ve always read a lot about the Holocaust as well. How could anyone be so evil? I‘ll never understand. 1d

Amiable @CBee Exactly!! Have you ever read this one? It‘s a discussion about the difference between “successful” and “unsuccessful” sociopaths—how people who fall on the sociopath spectrum often gravitate to certain careers where they can be/are wildly successful. And why being a sociopath helps them succeed. It‘s fascinating and I still talk about it a lot.

Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain : Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil

CBee @Amiable I haven‘t but I‘m stacking it - thank you 😊 1d

dabbe @CBee Do you remember who you wrote about? And of course I would have loved to read it! 😍 22h

dabbe @CBee Oh, I can't wait to hear about this! 🥰 22h

dabbe @Amiable 🩵🎯🩵 22h

CBee @dabbe some of the more known killers but a few not as well known. Gosh I wish I still had that paper somewhere! 22h

dabbe @CBee No worries! But now you have me wanting to research some serial killers! Summer escapism at its best. How psycho am I? 🤪 21h

AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit 🆒🥳👍🏼...loved Bride by Ali Hazelwood, it was incredible 👏🏼📚😉👍🏼💝. 19h

AnnCrystal @Amiable 🆒 thanks for this info . Logging it. Love that hashtag! 👏🏼😉📚💝💝💝. 19h

CBee @dabbe not psycho! Intrigued! 18h

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