It has run its course,please moderators spare us
There may a nugget of useful information to come,please leave it open
That is so stupid! The "Brer" bunch was as excellent a bunch of fables as were Aesop's.
Just because something was done in the south and has blacks and whites of that era portrayed in that era doesn't make it racist!
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Originally Posted by Jax
It is stupid but I can see the school's point as well. Tarbaby was still used as a term of racism up until I left Louisiana.
Yes. Of course, these were part of the "Uncle Remus" collection of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. They were also featured in the Disney movie, "Song of the South," the movie title also being that of the film's main song (we know it better as "Zippity do dah... Zippityay...").
I recall being read/discussing these stories in the 5th grade (mostly "Br'er Rabbit and the Honey pot"). But I can see why they would not be permitted for discussion in schools today.
As for the original topic, I would prefer the thread in question remain open. Hopefully, it will help us all learn "not to feed the trolls!" I agree... If we close the thread (i.e. a "rejection"), it will mean we're still paying attention to the troll and that will spur them on. If we keep the thread(s) open and just ignore all the troll post(s), that's even worse than paying them "negative/rejection" attention. I believe it will make the troll go away much faster if nobody cares (one way or another) about what they have to say.
Agreed. At lease as recently as the late 70s and early 80s. It doesn't matter what the origin of something was once it takes on an identity of its own.
Good for you two! Congrats...she'll make an honest man out of you yet Russell
...still playin with Tonka Toys in the sandbox...and blowin bubbles in the water...
Noooooooooooooo...
Now that I was just going to tell him about the death on the hydro a few months ago, the guy breathing a wrong mix (36%?) at 175'. That would put some more fuel into his fire
Unfortunately trolls are like the mythological Hydra (not the genus of small, simple aquatic animals).
When you cut off one head, two more heads emerge.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
On my birthday !!
congratulations Russell ^_^
Ah hell... Gian's on here as well? On behalf of the UK - I apologise to our cousins across the pond.. he seems to do this sort of thing everywhere. In mitigation, AFAIK he's not one of ours... we just host his blathering.. I used to find it amusing, now it's tiresome..
The ignore function is wonderful isn't it.. IMO it's best to put a blanket ignore on certain accounts - so that they can have arguments with themselves without bothering the rest of the world (and there's a few on both sides of the pond that can argue with themselves... it's not just Gian).. could that be the "third option" that everyone is looking for? A Sandbox area where we blanket ignore the troll-type people and leave them go play..
EDIT : - On the poll I am broadly in favour of leaving things open - sorry I didn't say that before.
When my children were younger I made sure to find not only a videotape copy of "Song of the South" but also an original reprint of his Uncle Remus tales. Joel Chandler Harris, along with Thomas Nelson Page covered the antebellum (and post war) years well and are still mentioned in some literary academic circles for authentically representing the black dialect of the day. See: http://www.walterbrasch.com/brerrabb...lerharris.html
Also, the two children of Joel Chandler Harris owned the Columbus (GA) Enquirer and they won a Pulitzer prize in the 1920's for in-depth reporting against the Ku Klux Klan. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/a...1963-1875-1967
My family owned the other Columbus daily (the Ledger) and they bought the Enquirer from the Harris family.
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