DOROTHY HEIGHT, OPEN WIDE THE FREEDOM GATE

[harry brown]

SAW ON C-SPAN   SAW    INTERVIEW  OF THE  LATE GREAT  DOROTHY HEIGHT.TALKED  ABOUT HER BOOK  OPEN  WIDE  THE FREEDOM  GATES..SAID   ,I  THINK   SHE  MET   W.E.B. DUBOIS,   /HER  AND  ACTRESS  RUBY  DEE  WENT   TO  ACTOR SIDNEY POTIER   HOUSE  AND  MET     MALCOLM   X//WILL   CLICK  ON C-SPAN TO  LISTEN  TO  WHOLE INTERVIEW//SHE  DOES  NOT  REGRET  NOT  BEING MARRIED.//  

[Troy]

This is the interview who were speaking about believe you are referring to this interview

 

 

Dorothy had an incredible life, long and full.  Getting married would have, changed everything for her.  I suspect if she were a man she could have gotten married and accomplished everything she did--perhaps more. 

 

I wonder if Dorothy were a man would the interviewer have inquired about his marital status?

 

Here is another good interview

 

[Cynique]

This is a woman who I'd always heard of but never knew much about.  After all this time, I found it interesting how much we had in common when it came to education.  My education was also very diverse, inasmuch as I've always gone to integrated schools, something that prepared me to navigate through a diverse world. Less beneficiaI to my perspective was that I, too, never had a black teacher or professor.  Like Ms. Height, I came to be disappointed with how progress and improvement fell short of the expectations of the civil rights victories that promised equal education opportunities for Blacks.  At some point, things regressed and years later many of the problems plaguing the black community have to do with how poorly the schools are preparing our children.  

 

Blacks have had so many outstanding leaders like Dorothy Height, but sadly unless these role models were athletes or entertainers, their good influence didn't trickle down to the masses. The same way with the good black family values that stopped being passed on.  What happened?

 

I regularly ponder why Blacks in this country have such a hard time earning respect.  It always comes back to racism.  I recently read an article about a little white boy whose parents had white supremacy ties.  While in the hospital he went into a coma and expired, but was later resuscitated.  During his recovery he told his preacher father that when he died he'd visited heaven and lo and behold Jesus was, in his words, a "nigger".  And so were a lot of the angels.  The youngster wondered why he'd always been told that Jesus was white and that Blacks were mud people whose skin color was a curse.  In response to his son's confusion, the father simply dismissed  the dream, declaring that it got it wrong. Who to believe?  Omigod.