If your comment "This reminds me of the episode in "All in the Family" when Archie was trying to explain to Sammy Davis, Jr. how a black man was supposed to feel" is to the link I posted leading to the 21 articles by Ray Springle, you may want to go back and read the articles so that you can at least appear to know what you're talking about.
posted on July 15, 2001 09:43:37 PM new
Your linked article also looks interesting, Krs, I've begun reading it and look forward to going through it. But you know, Krs, 1948 was a long time ago.
posted on July 15, 2001 09:51:29 PM new
I know that, of course, but it wasn't long after Joe was hired. Even by then some change had taken place, but Joe may well have heard stories of slavery on his grandfather's knee, and his father must have lived out his life making the sorts of apaptations described in those articles. Joe wasn't far enough past those times to have been uninfluenced by them directly. They had to form his own mechanisms of survival.
