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Re: John Kerry and Langston Hughes



Langston Hughes lived through the period of American
history that birthed the Red Hot Summers and this
reality helped shape the core of his vision . . . not
to mention his personal history. Without question
Langston's vision was of an America where blacks were
not murdered and lynched in mass and segregated for
another half century . . . which you equate with a
Stalinists vision or a Stalinists America.

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Hughes wrote for Izvestia when he lived in Central
Asia in the early 30s. He was the first American
writer to be translated into a Central Asian language
(Uzbek), I think.



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