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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This 1950s era comic illustrates why the Trump campaign is dying [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)50. 4 years, millions die, to defeat an army run by a believer in a super race of white men, so we can
go home and raise the kids on a steady diet of tv showing a white super man.
What we say and what we teach are often two different things.
It's been way too long, but I went through what I could find on youtube, and I did not see one black character on tv superman from the 50s.
This episode was special for the Treasury Dept to encourage savings, - still no black folk, but the guy who says he is a burglar because he never learned to save cracked me up.
From Wiki - Tye (2012): "Weisinger stories steered clear of the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, the black power movement, and other issues that red the 1960s. There was none of what Mort would have called touchy-feely either, much as readers might have liked to know how Clark felt about his split personality, or whether Superman and Lois engaged in the battles between the sexes that were a hallmark of the era. Mort wanted his comics to be a haven for young readers, and he knew his right-leaning politics wouldnt sit well with his leftist writers and many of his Superman fans."
Maybe that was why we saw a mostly white world.
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DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2016
OP
I did not know that. Actually, I know nothing of Superman comic books. Thanks for post
riversedge
Aug 2016
#3
Other than the English and Dutch, every immigrant wave from Europe did their time
Francis Booth
Aug 2016
#33
An illegal immigrant at that! I don't recall him getting his American Citizenship....
Moonwalk
Aug 2016
#24
I also like the old metaphor of "the melting pot." (Read on if you're rolling your eyes.)
Old Crow
Aug 2016
#32
Couldn't agree with you more. I'm old now, but as kids we were taught the melting pot
Francis Booth
Aug 2016
#34
English, yes, but another language as well. Many in other countries are multi-longual . . .
brush
Aug 2016
#36
Multilingual is wonderful. The Swiss speak German, Italian, English and French.
Francis Booth
Aug 2016
#43
I believe most Americans agree. Wouldn't it be great if this old idea caught on again?
TonyPDX
Aug 2016
#12
I'd love to support that movement. If it takes hold, though, the media will be the last to know it.
TonyPDX
Aug 2016
#20
Postwar boomer here - ww2& holocaust was still fresh back then and we were raised w/strong sense of
Kashkakat v.2.0
Aug 2016
#17
Used to watch Superman in B/W as a little kid, and could recite the opening by heart...
Hekate
Aug 2016
#21
Great posting! Also, your signature line is excellent! About being a Democrat because God loves you.
Akamai
Aug 2016
#26
Who distributed those, and has the rights? A go fund me page could pay to distribute them again. n/t
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#40