On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 05:12 PM, Tom Pall wrote: > > Do the demonstrations in anyway suggest that I'm not alone in asserting > that > > our Magic Negro isn't so magical anymore? > > What kind of magic would you have expected him to perform? This > economic situation is beyond the scope of an administration to solve. > If Glass-Steagall had not been repealed it would have been avoided. It > was Democrats who enacted it and Republicans who repealed it. > > Nomi Prins who worked for Goldman-Sachs explaining the economic situation: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5dlD9bzROc > > Well, I voted for a magic negro. A common theme in recent literature and movies which feature James Earl Jones and Denzel Washington. Even Mark Twain wrote about a magic negro. If this loser gets re-elected, it'll be good for society in a roundabout way, as "people of color" would have lost all credibility for at least a century onward. Hmm. It's Monday evening and this is my 30th post. Better kill two threads with one post. I turned off Ken Burns' Prohibition. His sthick has been copied so many times, it's no longer novel and exciting. Plus, his handling of Prohibition is just so polemic. Don't bother going into the history. Just slant it your own way. IMO, Ken Burns' Civil War was primo. He should have stopped then and there. His Civil War had many interesting quotations with many different voices. His Prohibition reminded me too much of the association I've had with the TMO and having to listen to the endless droning on and on. When I first watched Ken Burns' Civil War, I was sitting in a hotel in Camp Hill, PA. I had recently revisited Gettysburg, a place that deflates me and saddens me even when I get lost on the way to it and don't realize I'm just a few miles from it. I cried so much, watching the Civil War in Camp Hill. I was watching it sitting on actual Civil War battlefields. The ground was still soaked with blood, despair and the suffering of a very inelegant war. The story of Prohibition can be told well, not unlike the way Doug, when the Spirit moves him, can tell us about Shakers and Quakers and bring those people to life before our eyes. The monotone of Prohibition, the lack of going into the temperance movement's historical roots in English and American history was very disappointing. Sometimes people should realize they did well and can't top that. Let their watershed work be their only work.
