"After waking up to the news of his passion on Sunday morning, I soon clicked on the New York Times link to his obituary. As always, it was masterfully written and covered a lot of ground, but one section not only troubled me, it troubled thousands of others who read it.
Here it is ....
Julian Bond’s great-grandmother Jane Bond was the slave mistress of a Kentucky farmer. Julian’s grandfather James Bond, one of Jane Bond’s sons, was educated at Berea and Oberlin Colleges and became a clergyman. His son Horace Mann Bond expected his own son Julian to follow in his footsteps as an educator, but the young man was attracted instead to journalism and political activism.
Sigh.
Double sigh."
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