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Originally posted by The1calledTKE
So if the Fascist support Bush we should think different of him?
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Or, more likely, the Council of Conservative Citizens or the Ku Klux Klan.
Of the three biographies I have of Langston Hughes---one quite critical--not one has said that he was a Communist; in fact, he refused membership and didn't even consider himself a sympathizer. He testified to HUAC in order to avoid being blacklisted. One also has to remember, during Hughes's time, the Communist party was the only major political group pressing for equal treatment of African-Americans. So, the right wing's alignment of him with Communism--then and now--isn't that surprising.