Language Hound | Post Nr. 276

LANGUAGE HOUND with EAR & SNOUT

For the Love of Language (published sporadically, as moved) No. 276

August 17, 2022

[Harry Edwards:] "He would call me up and say, 'Harry, I was just thinking' and I would say, 'What do you want? What's goin' on?' or 'What do we got to talk about?' and, after a while, I came to respect his disposition."

[Arthur Ashe:] "You grow up Black in the American South, you have no control. Your life is proscribed. And then in the '60s, then you had Black ideologues trying to tell me what to do. All the time, I am saying to myself Hey, when do I get to decide what I want to do? and so I've always been fiercely protective with anyone wanting to control my life."

[Harry Edwards:] "Arthur was the fist person to really push me to understand that Black orthodoxy is not an acceptable substitute for institutionalized White racism... that it has to be about people having the freedom to make their OWN decisions in terms of how they approach this struggle. Otherwise, what are we fighting for?"

—Recollections by [Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley] Dr. Edwards and [then tennis champion, author, activist] Ashe (from HBO Max's Citizen Ashe) regarding the latter's approach to social justice

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