Chekhov's Mistress
The Problem with Post-Modernism is that We are Not Yet Modern.
From the June 19th Writer’s Almanac:
It was on this day in 1964 that Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. After a long battle in the Senate, the act passed, outlawing all segregation on the basis of race in the United States: in hotels and motels, restaurants, cafeterias, lunch counters, gasoline stations, movies houses, theaters, concert halls, sports arenas, stadiums or any other place of entertainment.
The bill was quickly passed in the House of Representatives, but it was filibustered in the Senate for almost three months by southern Democrats. It finally came up for a vote in the Senate on this day in 1964, and every senator was present, including Senator Clair Engle of California, who was dying of a brain tumor and could not speak. In order to vote yes, he pointed to his eye.
So it wasn’t that long ago that as a country we made a law (had to make law!) allowing (sometimes forcing) the intermingling of races in most every aspect of life. This is what John Kennedy said in 1963:
“The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section of the nation in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day; one third as much chance of completing college; one third as much chance of becoming a professional man; twice as much chance of becoming unemployed; about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year; a life expectancy which is seven years shorter; and the prospects of earning only half as much.”
And still today, a recent study confirms that a white man with a prison record has a better chance of getting a job than a black man without.
Sorry, but there’s nothing modern about that.
And if the above is not enough to prove the point, then there are these degenerate pinheads (from today’s NY Times): “…their passion comes from their conviction that homosexuality is a sin, is immoral, harms children and spreads disease. Not only that, but they see homosexuality itself as a kind of disease, one that afflicts not only individuals but also society at large and that shares one of the prominent features of a disease: it seeks to spread itself.”
Happy Father’s day.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: June 19, 2005
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