re: #69 Justanotherhuman

This will blow your socks off. Of course, everyone should be familiar with Billie Holiday’s version.

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Abel Meeropol can be seen as a reminder that not all Communists were/are evil. He was wrong about many things but his concern about racism was real (for the USSR, American racism was simply a club with which to beat the USA, as Russia remained quite bigoted itself). His willingness to adopt the Rosenbergs’ son and give them his name so they’d not suffer stigma was also honorable. Overall, he can be considered to have done good deal more good than harm.

BBL