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CincyDem

(6,283 posts)
14. Keenan Thompson: Long time SNL actor. Jump from comedy to drama.
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 11:00 AM
Jan 2019


Many have done it and I'll bet he could too.

Lonestarblue

(9,880 posts)
4. Another part of history ignored
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 08:36 AM
Jan 2019

as conservatives continue to pressure textbook publishers to whitewash history. In their view, only white people contributed to the building of this nation and deserve to be remembered in history. While whitewashing history, they also push fables like “intelligent design” to replace evolution, reject the science of climate change while fully believing in the science that can detect a fetal heartbeat at six weeks so they can outlaw abortion at that point, and the teaching and observance of their warped version of Christianity in public schools.

pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
5. Reading the right history books is helpful
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 09:04 AM
Jan 2019

I got home from the service quite a long time ago and found that my younger brother had become a dittohead. He went to work as a house painter right after high school, got married and his wife was going through nursing school when I got back. I was so appalled by this transformation that I literally made him sit down and read Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States.' That book was the beginning. He went to college after his wife finished nursing school and now he teaches at the University of North Carolina. His major was American Literature and since then he has become an expert on the writings of Walt Whitman. Whadayaknow...one history book started all of that.

pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
9. I owe my love of history to my eighth grade history teacher, Mr. Werner
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 09:28 AM
Jan 2019

It was the school year that began right after the summer of the Watergate Hearings, when he told me don't always believe everything you read (or don't read) in the history books. That was about the time that a new Pacifica Radio affiliate was launched in Houston and I've never looked back...and never voted Republican.

whopis01

(3,467 posts)
7. "Buys a house" glosses over one of the best parts of his story
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 09:22 AM
Jan 2019

He went back home after the war and bought the house that used to belong to his former owner.

Turns out that his former owner refused to pay taxes to the union after the war and eventually his house was seized. That allowed Robert Smalls to buy it. It was challenged in court, but smalls prevailed.

Once his former owner passed away, smalls allowed his widow to come live at the house until her death.

ejbr

(5,852 posts)
10. I appreciate that it ties a nice bow,
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 09:36 AM
Jan 2019

but living happily ever after as a black person can be difficult today, let alone back then. That said, I’d sit through that movie a few times myself!

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
12. Double bill with Bass Reeves would be a knockout.
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 10:42 AM
Jan 2019

A miniseries, based on Burton's 2006 biography and co-produced by Morgan Freeman, is reportedly under development by HBO.[25] As of April 2018, Amazon Studios is developing a biopic of Reeves with the script and direction helmed by Chloé Zhao.[26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves#Film
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