Agreed. Put it in the new quad they are going to build across from the college ave gym.I like the idea, except that pretty much the two places on campus that don't need changing are Voorhees Mall and Queens campus. Why not put this somewhere else?
I know I am in a small minority on this, but I do not consider Paul Robeson a role model. He slavishly followed the Communist Party line all his life, to the extent of endorsing the Hitler/Stalin pact that set the stage of World War II
The Soviet Union was very good at using racial propaganda. Their response to American complaints about their human rights record was to show video to their citizens of dogs and hoses being released on peaceful black protesters.
Unlike today, you couldn't just Wikipedia to find out about the real human rights record of a country.
I wonder how much of the empathy for the Soviet Union came from siding with the democratic side in the Spanish Civil War, which included communists and had significant backing in the US. Some might have considered Europe a fascist/communist dichotomy.
Yes, as a Spanish major, we are basically trained to look back at Spanish Civil War more than most Americans who follow history!
Additionally, if you ever in Madrid, Picasso's Guernica is a must see (a painting meant to show the bombings of a Spanish town by Hitler and Mussolini).
I know I am in a small minority on this, but I do not consider Paul Robeson a role model. He slavishly followed the Communist Party line all his life, to the extent of endorsing the Hitler/Stalin pact that set the stage of World War II
Perhaps if your country treated you and people like you the way it treated Robeson and people like him during that era -- we couldn't even get an anti-lynching law passed in Congress, for pete's sake -- you, too, would have looked to another system. Paul Robeson was a giant as an athlete, a giant as a scholar, a giant as an entertainer, and if he wanted to have the full rights of an adult male human in his native nation and found that impossible, I am not going to judge how he responded.
Damn proud he not only went to Rutgers but is from New Jersey.
I know I am in a small minority on this, but I do not consider Paul Robeson a role model. He slavishly followed the Communist Party line all his life, to the extent of endorsing the Hitler/Stalin pact that set the stage of World War II
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Cam law you are 100% wrong he like most in the 20s and 30s viewed communism as Nuevo ideal government. On paper it was and for an intelligent black man raised in the US at the times he also viewed communism as it was presented as the altruistic society.
Yes he went to the USSR and was used and abused by the very government he came to admire.
When attempting to re enter the USA from Canada. he was stopped and J. Edger Hoover replied ..."allow him back in as he (Paul Robeson) is no communist. For personal reasons my father interviewed Paul in the late 60s and early 70s on just these points.
Please go back and re write your prejudice history of this man. "Slavishly" this word is prejudice & "all his life" is a blatant lie use "flirted with" rather the Slavishly and a part of his enlightenment age a span of 10-15 years (until he saw first hand the "light", NOT all HIS LIFE)