So, this series assumes that Africa is not mired in tribalism and failure but Europe was...
I thought “Cracker” is to whites as “N*****” is to blacks. How can they get away with using such a RACIST word?
Simply taking roles and reversing them is not creative and serves no purpose. In fact, by making something like this where historic black and white roles are reversed, and the minority is still treated horribly, is almost an argument that racism is inevitable.
I'd rather read a good book...
Is that incorrect?
For those that don't know what you're referencing, that's The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, by Thomas Dixon Jr.
And I'm really, really curious as to why you think it's a good book.
I haven't read it, but I have seen Birth of a Nation, and "good" would not be a an adjective I'd reach for when describing the message presented.
It's interesting that you would even ask such a question. I'd be interested in knowing what you consider a good book. Or, for that matter, a bad book. Try thinking for a moment about what it may be that you seek when you read a book. For me it is something to think about whether it might be Green's Interlinear, Honor Harrington brain candy or a compendium of other people's belief systems such as The Golden Bough. And to answer your question, until we're allowed to use some time machine that the skunk works puts together it is only by study of the works, primarily writings, from days gone by that we can understand where we have come from, what and how they thought. That's what makes a book a good book.
But in the case of that particular book, it's also entertaining in its own realm and for that reason it hasn't been culled. I found it in a charity resale shop for unwed mothers in Jasper, Alabama about the time the people were being murdered at Waco, TX. I remember that because the victory roast was on every monitor in Hartsfield International. Also found there the published memoirs of CSA general, hardly worn, leather bound with color plates. Some grandkids done thow'd it out when Granny died. I donated it to a museum. Another good one was a three inch thick volume of the families who run this planet with a pretty cool fold out family tree chart. Hmm, let's see now, who really was the 39th president's daddy?
Well, you sort of danced around it.Hope that answered your question.
JettaKnight,
That's the kind of answer that I expected because of the manner you regularly display, as surely reflect your needs and of a certainty your prejudices. Having obtained to providing you the opportunity for civil behavior I will now return to my regular manner; ignoring you, speaking past you or just having a good laugh as may be appropriate. And now I'll spend the balance of my evening preparing a report for some good people in Baton Rouge.
So long.
JettaKnight,
That's the kind of answer that I expected because of the manner you regularly display, as surely reflect your needs and of a certainty your prejudices. Having obtained to providing you the opportunity for civil behavior I will now return to my regular manner; ignoring you, speaking past you or just having a good laugh as may be appropriate. And now I'll spend the balance of my evening preparing a report for some good people in Baton Rouge.
So long.