The new USA
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Come on moot, no slurs please.
I think it was done in jest but off color.
A bit over the top.
Yeah, it was. If I had thought it was serious I would have said something, but you are right, there really is no need for it.
Their race shouldn't matter, but to many people, it does. Immigrants from Mexico, south America, or Africa are as welcome as the Irish were in the days when most every factory and boarding house posted a sign: No Irish Need Apply.
Still, LDB makes a valid point: why do we continue to welcome more people when we can't adequately provide [employment] for those already here? Our social fabric is straining at the seams already, and our melting pot is perilously close to boiling over, IMO.
Still, LDB makes a valid point: why do we continue to welcome more people when we can't adequately provide [employment] for those already here? Our social fabric is straining at the seams already, and our melting pot is perilously close to boiling over, IMO.
Did they have bathrooms where one was marked coloreds and one whites only. It was also on the drinking fountains, of course this was in the south. That was still in 1964.......in another note, In the Navy, Miramar Naval Air Station there was all black barracks, but not in Pensacola Fl, go figure that one out. and that was in 1969.
People didn't like the Irish enough to provide water fountains for them, much less entire bathrooms and barracks!
Just the day before yesterday, I had lunch in an Irish pub, and it was great - wonder if my grands will enjoy African cuisine in their time, or whether the days of assimilation are behind us, because we're stretched to the breaking point now.
Just the day before yesterday, I had lunch in an Irish pub, and it was great - wonder if my grands will enjoy African cuisine in their time, or whether the days of assimilation are behind us, because we're stretched to the breaking point now.
C'mon, Moot, we're not all as fluent in movie dialogue as you are - if Turtle hadn't posted the link to Blazing Saddles, I wouldn't have remembered where the quote was from either, and I LOVE the movie, lol.
I'm not fluent in movie dialog but I do recall one of the most poignant lines from Blazing Saddles, when taken in the context of a town full of honkeys forced to make a concession to save their little town. Most people remember Blazing Saddles for the gratuitous potty humor of the campfire scene though.
Well, maybe there's hope for America yet - watch this:
Kid Rock & Sean Penn's Bizarre Political PSA Wants You To Remember We're All Americans
Warning: don't watch if you're offended by cursing! [But it's pretty funny]
Kid Rock & Sean Penn's Bizarre Political PSA Wants You To Remember We're All Americans
Warning: don't watch if you're offended by cursing! [But it's pretty funny]
I remember it as a masterful satire on the ridiculousness of racism and prejudice and politics.
I've also committed every line to memory. It's that good. And that funny.
I even know some of the lines that were deleted in the final cut.
Lili von Shtupp: Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted? [sound of zipper opening] Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's twue!
Sheriff Bart: I hate to disappoint you, ma'am, but you're suckin' on my arm!
When the scared Mexican sees Mongo riding into town on the oxen, he screams, "Mongo! Santa Maria!"
That's an homage to the black Cuban-born rumba quinto master, percussionist and band leader Mongo Santamaría, who was instrumental in practically inventing Afro-Cuban and Afro-American music, and the boogaloo dance rhythm craze of the 1960s. Santamaria's 1963 rendition of Herbie Hanсock's Watermelon ManWatermelon Man was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. It's also the most recorded and performed jazz tune ever.
I've also committed every line to memory. It's that good. And that funny.
I even know some of the lines that were deleted in the final cut.
Lili von Shtupp: Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted? [sound of zipper opening] Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's twue!
Sheriff Bart: I hate to disappoint you, ma'am, but you're suckin' on my arm!
When the scared Mexican sees Mongo riding into town on the oxen, he screams, "Mongo! Santa Maria!"
That's an homage to the black Cuban-born rumba quinto master, percussionist and band leader Mongo Santamaría, who was instrumental in practically inventing Afro-Cuban and Afro-American music, and the boogaloo dance rhythm craze of the 1960s. Santamaria's 1963 rendition of Herbie Hanсock's Watermelon ManWatermelon Man was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. It's also the most recorded and performed jazz tune ever.
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