This didn't get through the first
time.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: liquor as white privilege
Ida B. Wells had some disagreements with Francis E.
Willard that evoke some views of those times. Here's the link and the
paragraph with Willard's quotes.
"Ida never hid from the public her opinions of
Willard, whom she stated maintained her high upstanding in society by catering
to wealthy whites who were prejudiced against blacks. Ida cited an interview
Willard had done in which she claimed, "The colored race multiplies like the
locusts of Egypt. The grog-shop is its source of power. Better whiskey and more
of it' has been the rallying cry of great dark-faced mobs in the Southern
localities where local option was snowed under by the colored vote." Willard had
even gone so far as to suggest that blacks were out of control criminals,
saying, "The safety of women, of children, of the home is menaced in a thousand
localities at this moment, so men dare not go beyond the sight of their own
roof-tree." Brazenly, Ida had Willard's interview published in the Society's
journal, the Fraternity. When the article came out Willard and her sponsor, Lady
Isabel Somerset, were enraged and lashed back out at Ida. As a result, the rest
of Ida's trip was hampered by the battle that raged between the two parties.
Still, the fact that Ida was even able to hold her own against Willard was in
fact remarkable, since Willard had been highly esteemed by England, whereas Ida
was seen by some critical newspapers as an annoying firebrand involved in
matters way over her head."
Nonetheless, even today, I think the US
Capitol building still displays a full figure statue of Willard.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: liquor as white
privilege
> The fear that black men, stimulated by alcohol, would attack white
> women, certainly contributed to the introduction of prohibition in the
> southern states of the U.S. in the early 20th century. Congressman
> Hobson from Alabama, speaking in the House of Representatives in 1914
> on his resolution for a prohibition amendment to the Consitition,
> claimed that "Liquor will actually make a brute out of the Negro,
> causing him to commit unnatural crimes. The effect is the same on the
> white man, though the white man being further evolved it takes a longer
> time to reduce him to the same level." See Hanes Walton Jr and James E.
> Taylor, "Blacks and the Southern Prohibition Movement," Phlyon vol. 32
> (1971) pp. 247-59.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
From: Robert Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:48:08 -0700
> Subject: liquor as
white privilege
>
> Hello,
> A colleague of mine has
asked about secondary literature on liquor as a
> white
>
privilege, particularly in the Canadian context. My work certainly has
>
assumed
> that privilege, but it does not discuss how access to alcohol
can be
> part of the
> process of creating "whiteness."
>
Regards,
> Robert Campbell
>
>
> Robert A. Campbell,
Ph.D.
> Department of History
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