14..Pinot & VAUC especially, with extra detail.
15..Geordi rightfully cites Fran Tarkenton (who disappointed us Giants fans in his stay here).
16..Atl, and even some guys know apparently, probably devoted participants in LaMaze.
17..Fair gets closer to the "career" aspect, beyond just THE BIRDS. Hitchcock subverted her life by refusing to use her and denying requests from other studios to borrow her.
18..It got him(?) a gun for an assassination.
19..As geordi tells us, it was Potter Stewart.
20..Rocket instructs us in cows.
21..We see a couple of poster-imps who stretch the quote into Bacon's, "May I have another?". We can't allow that.
Here we award the Fair 4some citing Oliver!.
22..Geordi and Fair with a tale of desperate folk.
23..Geordi and VAUC mention names, which is ever helpful.
24..First, let me direct you to rbny for the skinny.
Then, Knight, I get your concern over decisions about selectivity. Permit me a sociological slant.
If we start with the question of what is very important to a social group, it always begins with cohesion
and that is fostered by cultural indoctrination, or plainly, instruction in patriotism, the American Way, if you will.
Nowadays we get that our cultural heroes had some, oh, flaws; hey, we're all human.
Still, you can only take that so far, because you butt heads with, "The Father of Our Country", and there's no way
we are giving him up. Period. And the significance of Jefferson and Lincoln, e. g, is in that direction.
A 2nd strain or ideology we hold is "equality", and I don't have to tell you how historically we twisted and danced around the concept when it comes to native Americans, blacks, fresh-off-the-boat immigrants and women. Slowly, unevenly, painfully we move to a definition
that blacks need be included in the equality equation. There is no wholesale turning back from this.
Now unless you have a Mao or a Fidel thrust upon us, expect change to be gradual. That is reality. Fits ands starts.
Two steps forward, one back. An advance in one institution, a lag in another.
In our present context, that can mean, does mean, an abrasion at times between patriotism, cultural heroes, the rendering of history books,
with the movement to have blacks be truly equal. Well, you start small, you persist, you look for things that raise consciousness about the consequences of things and practices. For instance, you put the Confederate flag under siege by looking for stuff that keeps bringing out its ugliness. (Sound familiar?)
The sociologist Edwin Sutherland looked at cultural training as a matter of differential definitions. What is the extent an item is praised vs. disparaged? When it comes to the success of including blacks in an equality equation, what is needed is a continuous change
in the ratio of favorable/unfavorable definitions. If racists rely on 4 or 7 or 11 stereotypes, you hammer away with contrary definitions until the earlier ones begin to fade.
Back in '69 my college had a program where we would bring sheltered students into the city for various experiences. On one hospital visit,
a black technician provided a small-group chat with us about the circulatory system. Afterwards a student came up and said, "I didn't believe a Negro could do that". She becomes then an agent of definition change.
And our definitions/perceptions of John C. Calhoun are now on the clock. Where he has been seen as a strong-voiced political
person, worthy of a statue or a college named after him, now the dialogue changes. We want to notice where he unthinkingly resides
and bring his racism to the forefront. And this may work, cause he's not George, Thomas or Abraham. And then we
go on to other findings, other definitions to change. Piece by piece, without disturbing too much, too early, the bedrock of patriotism.
So, though we don't make all cultural icons fall, so though we don't expect sudden mass change, we must ACT nonetheless in possible
ways and, yes, it will be selective (and a name change at Yale is such), if a society is increasingly acknowledging that the road to equality is yet undone.
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