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Saturday, May 17, 2003 np: tick. (tock.) mammy. i forget if i touched on this when i saw it originally, but seeing the jazz singer in the theatre was such an odd experience. certainly, from a historical viewpoint, it was an incredible thrill to see the first 'talkie' actually in a theatre somewhere. the carolina theatre is a beautiful old place down on greene st. in greensboro. every month they show a classic film up on the screen. last month it was east of eden and in the past i've seen it's a wonderful life and better off dead (certainly a classic in my mind). october and november are going to be fantastic as they're showing invasion of the body snatchers and metropolis respectively. but enough. i was sparked on some racial categories today after reading about ted nugent's remarks on a talk radio show a week or so ago. whatever nugent's intentions (as he apparently tried to use the epitets under certain statements) it doesn't matter. a public forum is not the place for random spoutings of hateful words. first amendement, yes. but that doesn't mean that advertisers have to let you on to express it. or that it's the right thing to do. reclaimation be damned, i can't think of any good place for 'n-----' to be used. period. and like nugent even has that excuse. and it all eventually led me (through atrios over to uppity negro) to damalia ayo and her rent-a-negro site which is fantastically satirical. some of ayo's art used al jolsen and mickey mouse as comparable blackface characters and all that is how we come back to me seeing the jazz singer. i was appropriately apalled at the blatent racism of the film towards both black americans and jewish people also. and thank god we've come far enough that it isn't okay to do this kind of stuff out front anymore. no, rather, racism has gone underground. the mark of the times demands it. which is why we get covert tactics like the attempted rebuff of affirmative action under the guise of being 'color blind' to all people. in my mind, the attempt to eliminate affirmative action is just a way of reducing the use of race to mean anything in this country. eventually leading to subsidies and grants being pulled out from race-centered organizations. attention foolhardy roustabouts: race still matters in this country. it doesn't matter what guise we gussy it up in, we are still a race-centric nation. how do i know this? ridiculously pandering tripe, such as the movie bringing down the house, succeed at the box office. that's how i know. race and class are two difficult things to work about. but if you step in with a conscious mind, you come out the wiser. maybe a bit red-faced from a few mistakes, but better mistakes among those who're trying to foster learning, than mistakes among those who would sooner spit on you than give you the chance. - the deadweight of a coffin is tremendous. especially wooden ones. and especially when your grandfather was a man of some size. as i watched my cousin chuck pallbear again today for my late great uncle herman, i noticed he seemed to have a little easier time of it. herman wasn't quite the size charlie was, nor was the coffin wooden, but of some sort of metal configuration. i stared at the vault for sometime. it was a beautiful design. but i had to wonder why. why a vault? why a nice coffin? you're dead. you're going to rot. if anything, the earth could use the nutrients. but you remain locked away in the casket. and in the vault. so the burial business is a sham. what a surprise, right? my cousin travis (butch, if you will) was once telephone solicited by a funeral home trying to sell him some sort of burial package. he politely informed them that his funeral arrangements were already taken care of. his family was to toss him off the nearby bluff down to the river when he died. and hung up. someone, please, either cremate me on a viking funeral pyre boat or bury me in a biodegradable wood box. preservation of my body is only necessary through the funeral, thank you. or..on second thought.. a set-up like what lenin's got going would be pretty choice. red square, here i come. posted by J. Neas | 5/17/2003 01:19:00 AM
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