donald41 Loc: puyallup Wa

are the goverment covering,or destroying and hiding evidence of our history?

phenry

Yup,sure are!

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

You have to be more specific. Happens everyday.

GmanTerry

That's the whole idea of tearing down monuments and statues. A perfect example of this sort of hiding history is what Walt Disney did with the film "Song of the South". That was the first film I ever took my son to see. It takes place in the south during the reconstruction era. It was not racist, it just depicted what life was like at that time. That was right after the Civil War. The slaves were freed but the rules in those days were like the rules prior to the 1960 Civil Rights Laws. In many cases, 'separate but equal". I thought it was educational to show my son the advances the country had mad in 100 years, the movie came out in 1948. However some blacks didn't like what the film showed and protested so Disney archived the film and stated it would never be shown again. This is a perfect example of hiding from reality and trying to change history. It was what it was and today's young people could well learn from it. If I were black I would want the film to be seen to show how different life is now. I believe blacks would benefit from learning how their past was and whites would see how it really was. You can not learn from suppressed history. As an aside to the above, I was raised in Irondequoit, New York on the shores of Lake Ontario. In the 1950s my schools in New York were completely integrated and there was no obvious racism that I ever saw. I was unaware that blacks had different rules. When I was a Marine, I was stationed in Yuma, Arizona. I was shocked by what I saw. Different restrooms and drinking fountains in the Yuma Greyhound Station. The diner across the street said "No Colored Trade Solicited". And the worst was the feeling I had when blacks got off the sidewalk when I walked downtown. That, was a learning experience. That was in the late 1950s. Disney re-released "Song of the South" in 1980, when my son was five. I had seen the film in 1948 when I was eight.


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