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The Harlem Ghetto

"It did no good to point out, as I did, that the exploitation of which she accused the Jews was American, not Jewish, that in fact, behind the Jewish face stood the American reality"

"And it (The Negro press) has been accused of being sensational, which it is; but this is a criticism difficult to take seriously in a country so devoted to the sensational as ours"

I'll update my progress after each essay and include a quote I like.

Everybody's Protest Novel

"Whatever unsettling questions are raised are evanescent , titillating; remote, for this has nothing to do with us, it is safely ensconced in the social arena, where, indeed, it has nothing to do with anyone, so that finally we receive a very definite thrill of virtue from the fact we are reading such a book at all."

Wow

I know it was probably awful in real life but Everytime an old piece of media describes dry, salted meat I crave it so badly