Re: Got lucky at the drive thru

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:09:15 -0400, Jill McQuown
<j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 4/12/2025 12:01 AM, Ed P wrote:

On 4/11/2025 11:39 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

>
Didn't used to be. Are we moving forward or backward? Do we glorify or
slander people by erasing their ethnicity and gender?

 
Sure it was.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/us/racist-origins-of-blackface/index.html
 
It’s been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting
their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the
United States. It was racist and offensive then, and it’s still racist
and offensive today.

>
I watched a new episode of 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS a couple of weeks
ago.

I watched American PBS the other day, for the first time in a long
time. They were talking about Trump's tariffs and the damage they do
to American businesses. Intelligent, reasonable people, no big mouths,
no American chest-thumping attitude whatsoever. It felt like I was
watching Europeans or Australians. The light was on in the US.

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Bruce
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