re: #205 GeneJockey

When I read those remarks, about the blacks working in the field all happy and singing, I remember the scene in Blazing Saddles, “Back when you was slaves, you used to sing like birds!”

Apparently that actor was real uncomfortable saying the racial slurs to Cleveon Little and the other African-Americans in the cast. Leo DiCaprio said similar things about his character in Django Unchained. But yeah, this denial of pre-Civil Rights life is stupid. I watched a documentary on the integration of college sports and a lot of the black Alabamans interviewed were saying they cheered like crazy when an integrated USC squad beat Alabama’s all white squad. Civil Rights allowed African-Americans to actually be treated as human beings in the South. I don’t buy Robertson’s excuse that he’s just a product of his upbringing. My father isn’t much older and I know the one time he used a racial slur in front of my grandfather, my grandfather told him never to use that word again. My grandfather was born in 1913.