tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post5333549455823869792..comments2023-10-22T02:35:41.216-07:00Comments on Citizen K.: The Wonderful D. O. I.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-11480574449371969802011-02-22T10:28:39.642-08:002011-02-22T10:28:39.642-08:00I kind of wince when I hear it referred to as &quo...I kind of wince when I hear it referred to as "culture," although it's fair enough. We do have a lot of great music and literature, too.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-13503388401072142552011-02-21T09:15:00.319-08:002011-02-21T09:15:00.319-08:00Oops! I had too many greats there. The veterans w...Oops! I had too many greats there. The veterans were my great grandfathers.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-70448460899302381272011-02-21T09:13:25.992-08:002011-02-21T09:13:25.992-08:00Two of my great-great grandfather's fought in ...Two of my great-great grandfather's fought in the Ohio regiment in the Civil War and my grandparents (The son of one and the daughter of the other) were liberal before it was a political word. I was never exposed to racism until I spent 3 months going to school in Florida. It was an all white school even though it was a public school. I had a rude awakening and learned a valuable lesson on Southern culture.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-82993164833821939222011-02-19T18:03:26.092-08:002011-02-19T18:03:26.092-08:00Interesting read, my friend.Interesting read, my friend.injaynesworldhttp://injaynesworld.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-43075489905661415282011-02-19T16:33:11.978-08:002011-02-19T16:33:11.978-08:00Great post, Paul.
My mother was a public educato...Great post, Paul. <br /><br />My mother was a public educator, but in algebra, not math. She never was a fan of history, and as long as I made A's, she didn't care who taught me.<br /><br />On the Civil War:<br /><br />I had ancestors who fought for the South; they didn't have slaves (except for a ggggrandmother - who had one slave), but they fought for states rights, I am assuming. I cannot ever know their exact motives.<br /><br />Still, I am not ashamed of them and see no reason to hide my family tree because there were Rebels in my closet...Cowtown Pattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07384649567351202679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-66362253742071910292011-02-19T15:21:55.878-08:002011-02-19T15:21:55.878-08:00Midland is just as it was when I left it in 1965.....Midland is just as it was when I left it in 1965....same political views exactly.artistpolly@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-16442799251285257262011-02-19T14:29:54.440-08:002011-02-19T14:29:54.440-08:00I am woefully ignorant of southern culture and his...I am woefully ignorant of southern culture and history, other than what was taught at California public schools, and watching flamboyant fabrications such as "Gone With the Wind." <br /><br />Of course I've read about the treatment of blacks by whites, seen movies, seen photographs of lynchings with a crowd of white men, women and children gathered 'round smiling as if this were a typical Sunday outing. <br /><br />How, as a people, will we ever come to grips with the civil war if we don't even know our own history, and that the so called romance of the war is still celebrated by so many?Taradharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665801586196931603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-13455972675811274912011-02-18T16:53:00.395-08:002011-02-18T16:53:00.395-08:00After Brooks Robinson, my favorite Oriole was Robi...After Brooks Robinson, my favorite Oriole was Robin Roberts. I didn't know that he was a Hall of Fame pitcher on the back end of his career: I just liked his name.<br /><br />I looked up Steve Barber. Your heart throb (after Emmylou, of course) lives in South Carolina and has twins. Steve passed away in 2007 after spending the last fourteen years of his life as a driving children with disabilities for the L.A. School District. I get the feeling that he was a pretty good guy.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-18147026901006752132011-02-18T16:43:35.226-08:002011-02-18T16:43:35.226-08:00Ah yes, I remember Jim Palmer and his pancakes! An...Ah yes, I remember Jim Palmer and his pancakes! And we were friendly with Steve Barber (Baltimore's first 20-game winner at that time) and his family; I was madly in love with his daughter Tracy.<br /><br />That was a great team, back in the mid '60s.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01648670975466222140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-63960112327595907132011-02-18T16:24:26.462-08:002011-02-18T16:24:26.462-08:00Roy, my father was a librarian at the Baltimore Co...Roy, my father was a librarian at the Baltimore County Library in the mid-60s. We used to go to Orioles games at Memorial (?) Stadium. One night, a rookie pitcher entered a lost cause in relief. He had a motion so fluid and beautiful that even a ten-year old took notice. Jim Palmer went on to be the greatest pitcher in Orioles' history, then sold underwear, and -- regrettably -- shilled for payday loan parasites. But what a pitcher...K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-577524200179096412011-02-18T15:31:48.189-08:002011-02-18T15:31:48.189-08:00When I read stories like this I thank the universe...When I read stories like this I thank the universe that I was educated where I was. Baltimore County may have been southern-leaning in its populace (after all, we had local businessmen sitting out in front of their businesses with shotguns daring African-Americans to try and come in the door during the height of the civil rights era), but its educational system was unabashedly liberal. I may have grown up south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but I was taught that the South was wrong.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01648670975466222140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-47081950373430413142011-02-18T14:00:17.279-08:002011-02-18T14:00:17.279-08:00What a great idea for a prophylactic: Ignorance of...What a great idea for a prophylactic: Ignorance of history = infertility.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-29769930596806351762011-02-18T10:48:47.166-08:002011-02-18T10:48:47.166-08:00Great tale. I only heard about this kind of thing ...Great tale. I only heard about this kind of thing when living in Houston and attending the Univ. of.<br />I guess I was shielded from much of this because most of my associations were within the academic community and my closest friends were all fellow hippies.<br /><br />Occasionally, I think we all look back at a teacher or two who we thought was sub-par only to realize years later that we carried away far more than we originally thought. And then there were those loony tunes like the ones you described. Not knowing their history has not stopped them from knowing how to pro-create.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-87810360338151959542011-02-18T10:42:06.312-08:002011-02-18T10:42:06.312-08:00I'm sure the slaves wondered why they were bei...I'm sure the slaves wondered why they were being dragged, not to mention flogged, raped, and hung.<br /><br />The Civil War is easy to romanticize militarily because of the iconic status of the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee. Then of course the South promoted the Redemption myth so successfully that southerners even bought into it. <br /><br />It's that way with all wars, for some reason. The Revolutionary War will always be Washington crossing the Delaware, WWI will always be the trenches, WWII will always be Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust, with little interest in the underlying politics and ideological motives.<br /><br />But the Civil War is special: The seminal event in American History and either people don't care what was about or actively cover it up. I more and more doubt that we'll ever get from under this terrible yoke the Founders harnessed us in. Maybe we don't want to.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-29148053563670604262011-02-18T10:28:40.626-08:002011-02-18T10:28:40.626-08:00And here we go again, all the contemporary Mrs. Co...And here we go again, all the contemporary Mrs. Coopers. Alas.<br /><br />That doctor complaining to you father that she had to bring up the you know who ... that's like the members of the commentariat at the NY Times Disunion column series on the Civil War -- "Why are you always dragging slaves slavery into the Civil War?" I am not making this up.<br /><br /><br />However, that wailing complaint provided a essential insight into how and why revisionist history of the CW and the antebellum and all the other eras before are so constantly in favor of the Lost Glorious Cause. We love our Civil War, we never get tired of discussing it -- but it the battles we love! Yet we've even revisionisted the battles, with absences and silences where the free people of color as well as the "contraband slave" played roles.<br /><br />IOW, when it comes to the history of the Civil War it is supposed to be all about the battles, and how they could have been won if such and such and such and such blahblahblah -- discussed in the glorious technicolor of clean revisionism -- in other words, no real reason for the war, just a neighborly misunderstanding, and now we all shake hands and are friends again, a wee bit embarrassed on both sides, but both sides able to hold their heads up with honor and honor each other.<br /><br />Dragging slavery, white supremacy, racism and all that into the discussion ruins the party for everyone and is in bad taste. Only boors and vulgar sorts such as we would do such a thing.<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-78787078743872119312011-02-18T09:28:52.154-08:002011-02-18T09:28:52.154-08:00What an amazing story about Mrs. Cooper. I didn...What an amazing story about Mrs. Cooper. I didn't know that one.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705727820213149832noreply@blogger.com