Right on, Morgan Freeman!

[Andre Jute]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
>

[Tom Kunich]

On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:29:13 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
> >
Black history is American History. Full of mistakes and errors but finally getting it correct. The Irish were sold into slavery as well. The Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps. How DARE these white SOB's try to tell us that there should be one month set aside to "honor" one group of Americans over another!

[Catrike Ryder]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 12:45:54 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:29:13?AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
>> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
>> >
>Black history is American History. Full of mistakes and errors but finally getting it correct. The Irish were sold into slavery as well. The Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps. How DARE these white SOB's try to tell us that there should be one month set aside to "honor" one group of Americans over another!

Actaully, this is white _79_year_old_heterosexual_male month and
that's how I'm going to celebrate it.

I think next month is ride_a_trike_up_and_back_on_bike_trail month.

[AMuzi]

True, without end:
http://thegildedhour.com/wp-content/uploads/No_Italians_Allowed.jpg

https://imgur.com/0jS6WoH

https://cdn.timesofisrael.com/blogs/uploads/2017/08/no-jews.jpg

https://www.columbusheritagecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/224.jpg

--
Andrew Muzi
a...@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[Tom Kunich]

Obviously the work of Duke Ellington and his band. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1081284993016249&set=a.467381291073292

[Catrike Ryder]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 15:07:28 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 2/3/2024 2:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

>> On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:29:13?AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
>>> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
>>>>
>> Black history is American History. Full of mistakes and errors but finally getting it correct. The Irish were sold into slavery as well. The Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps. How DARE these white SOB's try to tell us that there should be one month set aside to "honor" one group of Americans over another!
>
>True, without end:
>http://thegildedhour.com/wp-content/uploads/No_Italians_Allowed.jpg
>
>https://imgur.com/0jS6WoH
>
>https://cdn.timesofisrael.com/blogs/uploads/2017/08/no-jews.jpg
>
>https://www.columbusheritagecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/224.jpg

I hope they have a good party, but I'm going to skip it.

I'm not inclined to celebrate birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Bar
mitzvahs, etc, of people I have no relationship with, either.

[Andre Jute]

Once Americans celebrated people for their achievements. In the 1960s I remember TIME featured the Young Turks on their cover -- they were self-made millionaires before they were 40, back when a million dollars was still money. They didn't celebrate people chosen by their victimhood -- conferred by white left-wingers and their associated race hustlers* -- or, horrors, by their skin colour. -- AJ
>
* ...not to forget President Johnson's (and the Republicans' -- it was their idea which Johnson plagiarised) "Great Society", which could not have been more successful if it had been custom-designed to turn black people into an underclass by breaking up their families, in short social engineering so broad that even Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of abortionists, never dreamed such vicious eugenicist dystopias.
>

[Andre Jute]

I don't attend funerals, even of relatives and close friends. Too depressing in their misdirection. People mourn their own loss when they should be celebrating the life that is no more. -- AJ
>

[Frank Krygowski]

With all due respect, I don't think the American discrimination against
Italians, Poles, Jews etc. comes close to what Blacks have endured.

Black Americans endured about 250 years of legal slavery, about 100
years of severe legal discrimination via Jim Crow laws, and less than 60
years of supposed equality - although even that has been tainted with
heavy discrimination.

As just one example, Italian-American GIs returning from World War II
were able to get lots of VA assistance that was practically denied to
Black GIs.
https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits

--
- Frank Krygowski

[AMuzi]

On 2/3/2024 3:46 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 1:07:31 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 2/3/2024 2:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
>>> On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:29:13 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
>>>> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
>>>>>
>>> Black history is American History. Full of mistakes and errors but finally getting it correct. The Irish were sold into slavery as well. The Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps. How DARE these white SOB's try to tell us that there should be one month set aside to "honor" one group of Americans over another!
>> True, without end:
>> http://thegildedhour.com/wp-content/uploads/No_Italians_Allowed.jpg
>>
>> https://imgur.com/0jS6WoH
>>
>> https://cdn.timesofisrael.com/blogs/uploads/2017/08/no-jews.jpg
>>
>> https://www.columbusheritagecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/224.jpg
>>

> Obviously the work of Duke Ellington and his band. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1081284993016249&set=a.467381291073292

I don't subscribe to The Face Book but since you mention Mr
Ellington, who understood 'identity politics' better than
most, I'm reminded of this excellent quip.

Interviewer, "What can you tell me about th emusic of your
people?"

Duke Ellington, "My people? Who are my people? Piano
players? Dilletantes? Lovers of Beaujolais?"

A man in full and a great American at that.

[Catrike Ryder]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:16:08 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 2/3/2024 3:46 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

>> On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 1:07:31?PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2024 2:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

>>>> On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:29:13?AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
>>>>> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/02/03/flashback-morgan-freeman-clip-black-history-month-n2634517
>>>>>>
>>>> Black history is American History. Full of mistakes and errors but finally getting it correct. The Irish were sold into slavery as well. The Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps. How DARE these white SOB's try to tell us that there should be one month set aside to "honor" one group of Americans over another!
>>> True, without end:
>>> http://thegildedhour.com/wp-content/uploads/No_Italians_Allowed.jpg
>>>
>>> https://imgur.com/0jS6WoH
>>>
>>> https://cdn.timesofisrael.com/blogs/uploads/2017/08/no-jews.jpg
>>>
>>> https://www.columbusheritagecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/224.jpg
>>>
>
>> Obviously the work of Duke Ellington and his band. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1081284993016249&set=a.467381291073292
>
>I don't subscribe to The Face Book but since you mention Mr
>Ellington, who understood 'identity politics' better than
>most, I'm reminded of this excellent quip.
>
>Interviewer, "What can you tell me about th emusic of your
>people?"
>
>Duke Ellington, "My people? Who are my people? Piano
>players? Dilletantes? Lovers of Beaujolais?"
>
>A man in full and a great American at that.

He's definately one of my people. He's on my bicycle ride playlist.

[Andre Jute]

Exactly what I said above, the whole affair is a celebration, not to mention a confirmation, of victimhood, bestowed by leftwing fools like Krygowski who is so stupid, he believes it is the good and right thing to do. Krygowski wouldn't know merit if he fell over it, so he feels no urge to celebrate it.
>
Back when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was still alive, my thesis advisor let e spend, among other more scholarly periods under leading teachers at several universities, six months travelling across America on the Greyhound, and back again. One of the things I noted was the effort black people made to conform to the mores of bourgeois society that they aspired to rise into, that even poor black people were well dressed and well spoken. When I used to fly my recording company scout chum around the South on a Sunday, visiting several churches, we were often invited to lunch in their homes. These people weren't victims, they were strong families with steady jobs, working hard, saving to send their children to college. Johnston's great society broke the black family, which is the root of ethnic group progress. Johnson is truly the father of the dangerous ghetto, and of American racism. But get some smug, self-righteous leftie like Krygowski to admit it!
>
Andre Jute
I never met a Democrat who felt in the least guilty about what they have done to black people: Slavery, Jim Crow, the Great Society, and the modern American Apartheid. Krygowski's hypocrisies are but a small, arid example.
>

[Andre Jute]

On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 4:16:13 PM UTC, AMuzi wrote:
>
> Interviewer, "What can you tell me about th emusic of your
> people?"
>
> Duke Ellington, "My people? Who are my people? Piano
> players? Dilletantes? Lovers of Beaujolais?"
>
> A man in full and a great American at that.
> --
> Andrew Muzi
> a...@yellowjersey.org
> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
>

Hey, do you mind? My people are proud to be dilettantes! Except we prefer to say multi-talented. -- AJ
>

[AMuzi]

While that's true it was not unique to any one group. Your
everyday bicycle race spectators in Northern France for example:

http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/parisrou.jpg

Way back long ago before racial separatism destroyed our
culture:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/1b/ab/5b1bab24ead196581c21c905ce9e3e8c.jpg

Now even employed law abiding people dress like slobs, or
even like US Senators. Which is fine I suppose but doesn't
look sharp to me.

[AMuzi]

Take that up with Mr Ellington, I just quoted him.

[Andre Jute]

Exactly. I was explaining that it struck me forcefully that these people were assimilating to middle class culture, even in dress.
>
> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/parisrou.jpg
>
That mud made a mess of their shoes. Real fans.

>
> Way back long ago before racial separatism destroyed our
> culture:
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/1b/ab/5b1bab24ead196581c21c905ce9e3e8c.jpg
>

Très exactement. Thank you for taking the trouble to find the photo.

>
> Now even employed law abiding people dress like slobs, or
> even like US Senators. Which is fine I suppose but doesn't
> look sharp to me.
>

One of the very few times that the great Alastair Cooke sounded like he was making a complaint rather than sharing his razor-sharp vision for our entertainment and elucidation, was when he devoted a programme to his thoughts on seeing a rich kid with bodyguards come out onto the street to a waiting limo, dressed like "an impoverished ghetto-dweller".

>
> --
> Andrew Muzi
> a...@yellowjersey.org
> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
>

Andre Jute
In those days my trousers stayed up without benefit of belt or braces. We had better tailors then.
>

[Tom Kunich]

On Sat Feb 3 23:24:33 2024 Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 2/3/2024 4:07 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> > On 2/3/2024 2:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

Before the blacks, the Irish were sold on the auction blocks as slaves. It was simply easier to tell a black from a white and it was YOUR Democrat Party that denied veterans benefits to black soldiers and airmen. There wasn't a SINGLE white soldier that complained about black reinforcements. I can tell you that there wasn't ANY Army Air Force bomber crews that complained at all about the Red Tails - black P51 fighter escorts over Germany. Returning to a Democrat run US was the reason that blacks returnd to descrimination. And it was the PEOPLE who ended that descimination and not the government ruled over by Lyndon Johnson who was racist to the core.

Eisenhower desegregated the military but he rapidly grew sick and tired of the uselessness of a government bought and paid for. And his speech on leaving office warned the people of this country who paid him too little heed when he warned us of people like you.

[Tom Kunich]

Nor have I. They always blame it on the people that freed the slaves. I have even heared Democrats say that the Party beliefs between Republican and Demoicrat switched 180 degrees with the election of Lyndon Johnson, perhaps the most racist President to ever hold office.

[AMuzi]

Truman desegregated the War Department and then replaced it
with the 'Defense Dept'.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/desegregation-of-armed-forces

[AMuzi]

On 2/20/2024 11:52 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> On Sun Feb 4 08:51:29 2024 Andre Jute wrote:

>> On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 4:24:38AM UTC, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2024 4:07 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 2/3/2024 2:45 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

'Most racist' is a high bar with some stiff competition.

But hey LBJ is right up there anyway:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/apr/14/barack-obama/lyndon-johnson-opposed-every-civil-rights-proposal/

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/2867/lbj-quote-did-he-actually-say-this

[Catrike Ryder]

LBJ is right up there with Woodrow Wilson who showed the racist movie
"The Birth of a Nation" at the White House.

[AMuzi]

And segregated government service employees.

[Tom Kunich]

Harry Truman wrote an executive ORDER which was only good during his term of office and could be changed at any time that the Democrats put enough pressure on him. But even the Democrats were careful then because of all of the vets. The LAW was changed in 1957. And I might add against the strong opposition of the Democrats. JFK fully intended to reinforce the civil rights of blacks and was getting very worried about foreign wars such as Vietnam that he was talked into supporting and the CIA assassinated him. And the Warren Commission wrote and entire report of lies about the assassination. Lyndon Johnson made EVERY attempt to trash can the Civil Rights Law of 1964 but thousands of people overrode him. So then he and the Democrats took full credit for civil rights ("I'll have them niggers voting Democrat for 200 years") when he was forced to sign the final civil rights bill.

[John B.]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:32:31 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

What utter bull shit. True that Truman integrated the military and
federal services but they remained integrated. I enlisted in 1952 and
retired 1972 and there was no question the A.F. was integrated during
that period.
--
Cheers,

John B.