Re: Gentlemen's Agreement
- From: Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:00:22 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:24:02 -0400, Gary James
<gnjames43REMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:17:58 -0400, Thumper <jaylsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:43:16 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006 12:30:48 -0700, "Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley"
<cowartmisc1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Islander wrote:
Last evening my wife and I watched "Gentlemen's Agreement," 1947,
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield. This is a story about
a journalist played by Peck who passes himself off as a Jew to write an
article about anti-Semitism in the US.
I wonder if your reaction would have been exactly the same if the film
had been about discrimination against blacks in the US in 1947. The
difference would have been that in 1947, in many parts of the US,
discrimination against blacks was not only not illegal, but was
actually required by law. Most noticeably in segregated restrooms,
water fountains, restaurants, housing, etc.
John Cowart
I think that those of us who oppose discrimination were appalled
by the plight of black people in those days. I was taught at home
to be against all discrimination. Weren't you? It was frequently
a topic of conversation at the Sunday dinner table. An uncle was
a bit of an all around bigot and the discussions did not make for
one's digestion of the meal. And that was circa 1940.
My first duty assignment was at NAS Meridian Mississippi in 1964.
Imagine my surprise as a 17 year old from Massachusetts, getting off
the train and walking into the "colored" side of the railroad station.
Were you instructed to do that ? Or was it an old sign ?
That assignment changed my life. I couldn't believe that such hard
line segregation still existed. Over the next few months I got an
education I will never forget. Especially when I got to wade through
the swamps looking for the 3 civil rights workers.
Thumper
Two of those three were no great loss.
Killing all of the ones who had any part in killing them
would have been no loss. Trailer trash, and not the good
kind, even if they lived in southern mansions.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves" -- Wm. Pitt the Younger
.
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