Jul 25, 2019
5 min read
How To Defeat White Racists Using The Only Language They Understand
M y father, Herbert “Big Hub” Dyer, Sr., was a tall, broad-shouldered — “strappin’” — brown-skinned Black man. His canyon-deep bass voice served him well as leader of a gospel quartet called, eponymously, The Gospel Tones.
Born in thoroughly segregated Louisiana in 1922, Big Hub was also a World War II vet. After the war, he stayed in the Army and…
