"Spare" analysis

racism in the auto industry

 Summary here.

greased in both directions

Alabama

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
– Dr Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-1968]

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Matin Luther King, Jr.

activist

"Give light and people will find the way."
- Ella Baker [1903-1986]

interracial, baby

"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and white. Or a rape."

- 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon in 1973. Audio here.

An earlier reference to interracial relationships here.

Historical Amnesia

"[In 1629, John Winthrop's] Massachusetts Bay Colony created its Great Seal. It depicted an Indian with a scroll coming out of his mouth. On that scroll are the words 'Come over and help us.' The British colonists were thus pictured as benevolent humanists, responding to the pleas of the miserable natives to be rescued from their bitter pagan fate."

- Noam Chomsky, The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia.

ra·cial·ism

"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."

- Nelson Mandela [born 1918]

1. a. An emphasis on race or racial considerations, as in determining policy or interpreting events.
b. Policy or practice based on racial considerations.
2. Chiefly British Variant of racism.

An earlier related reference here.

interracial couple

Central Park Zoo, New York City, 1967

Photographer Garry Winogrand [1928-1984] liked to provoke.

Permitted in 1967, interracial marriage was "the last thing to fall."

An earlier reference to photography here.