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08-19-2006, 10:15 AM
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thank god things do change, even if slowly.....
my teen dd is reading Oliver Twist for her 9th grade english class summer assignment....and she's been shocked a couple of times by the terms used for both jewish & black people in the book.....'Mom, they said ***'.......i think she finds it more surprising there, in an official text, then in maybe a music video.......but it has been a good moment for talking about what people call 'others' or themselves, how terms/meanings/attitudes change over time, etc.........
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08-19-2006, 03:48 PM
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Kia~ Wow, you can jump on a soapbox any day, I'll listen to ya! I have to agree with you on that issue! I definitely think as a whole our society has come a long way, but I would love to see some major changes in our inner cities...I love to see black men and women succeed in a place where they once had no freedom at all! I never even thought about those shows compared to each other....but I have always LOVED the cosby show, and I remember not being allowed to watch the Jeffersons when I was a kid, now I guess I know why!
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08-19-2006, 07:37 PM
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Just thought I would throw in my two cents......every since DH and I have found out that I am expecting he has been so funny about TV shows. We will watch certain shows to "learn how to be good parents". One of our favorites is the Cosby Show, DH always makes comments about how that is the best show to learn how to be a good parent. Love it!
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08-21-2006, 01:17 PM
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I agree that we have come a long way in our cultural acceptance, but it is still here everywhere you look around. Dh and I just watched the movie "Crash", which was not at all what we thought it was going to be about. It was a great movie, and if you watch it a second time you catch how a lot of things are connected. Almost the entire movie is centered around racism and how it is still seperating America today, no matter how integrated we try to say we are. I totally recommend this movie. There are a lot of great actors who are in it and it shows that they think that our ideas about ethnicity and racism need to change. Some of the actors are Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brenden Fraser, Ludacris, Ryan Phillipe, and lots of cameos. It didn't do great at the box office, and I think the racial basis of it is why. People are afraid to think differently than they do. And if we are all honest, it doesn't matter how we think we act, we all have some form of racism going on embedded deep in our minds. I hate it, but we have to acknowlege it for it to change. I agree Kia, you can jump on your soap box any time you want to.
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08-21-2006, 11:27 PM
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Sara! Awesome movie! One of my favorites!
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