The Explanation
(for those who require one)

And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America #8


Original Caption:

First 'True' Colored Doll

New York -- Dr. Ralph Bunche and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt examine the first "anthropologically true" colored doll to hit the market. Called the "Saralee Negro Doll," it was created by a White Southerner, Mrs. Sara Lee Creech (1951)
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3 comments:

Christopher said...

Aunt Bea,What a yew got thar?..What r yew cookin' up NOW?

May 07, 2009 12:46 AM
Broom said...

Could Eleanor get any cooler?

May 07, 2009 2:16 AM
swac said...

Nobody doesn't love Saralee.

May 07, 2009 2:27 PM

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