Chenyin Pan's Blog – January 2010 Archive (2)

As Martin Luther King Day is 2 days away, I’m sitting here in the corner of the Starbucks Café, watching the flow of the passengers and cars outside in the cold. My thoughts have lost in my trip up north to Northeastern during the Thanksgiving last year. It was a trip that supposed to trace back Malcolm X’s life.



I went to the Roxbury out of the belief that the historically predominant black neighborhood still immersed in the Jazz, in all the accounts described by Alex Haley, and… Continue

Just a premature thought that haunting in my mind, about the class struggle. As you may know that I'm currently reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, through author's narrative about the US history from the perspective of Native Indians, black slaves instead of European settlers, white indenture servants instead of rich plantationers, ordinary citizens instead of politician superstars, factory workers instead of business tycons, I gained a new insight in interpreting… Continue