On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dan Scanlan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2012, at 9:30 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I understand it, "Uncle Tom" acquired its current derogatory > meanings from post-Civil War blackface minstrel show adaptations of Harriet > Beecher-Stowe's book which often portrayed a caricature of the Uncle Tom > character that was very different from the heroic character from the novel. > > -raghu. > > Thanks for this. The minstrel shows were certainly one of the pathways for > the metamorphosis of Tom. I think the case of deep racism was the cause, > though. The end of slavery was the end of certain property rights to some. > When my right-wing neighbor lost his home to a foreclosure he ripped up the > pipes and electric wires as he left. It was important to him to damage his > beautiful property when he lost it. > I think you are onto something very important. How else can you make sense of the present-day Republican Party? They are now the party of the Southern whites, to whom even in this day and age, white supremacy is absolutely central to their Weltanschauung. They have finally realized that they have lost and they won't go quietly. They want to burn this country down now that they have lost it for good. -raghu.
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