Like
it or not, it is Black History month, a time when the establishment
celebrates Marxists such as W.E. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Huey P.
Newton, and an assortment of other radicals. Most mainstream conservatives
search to find famous blacks that they can trumpet as conservative
heroes. Neoconservatives do this by promoting the cult of Martin
Luther King Jr. and have nostalgia for the "golden era"
of the civil rights movement that never existed. Any genuine conservative or libertarian does not need to be told that King was clearly always a man of the Left who supported democratic socialism, reparations for slavery, and affirmative action. Others properly look towards Booker T. Washington. However there is one African American who is widely ignored by the Right, largely because she has become a hero to multiculturalists and organized feminism. That woman is Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston was born in Eatonville, Florida, a small self-sufficient black town. Her father was a Baptist minister who would later become its mayor. She educated herself before attending high school in Maryland and then college at Howard University, where she was inspired to start a literary career. She transferred to Barnard College, where she studied under Franz Boas. For several years, she traveled around the South, Hati, and Jamaica to collect local folklore.
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