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 r****t, it just depicted what life was like at that time. That was right after the Civil War. The s***es 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 b****s 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 b****s would benefit from learning how their past was and w****s 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 r****m that I ever saw. I was unaware that b****s 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 b****s 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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