I read Jaws when I was a kid; probably 11-years-old. It was after the movie came out (the movie was released a couple months before I was born). It was very interesting to read the subplots that were excluded from the movie, specifically the mob control over various aspects of Amity Island and the affair between Matt Hooper and Ellen Brody. And the ending was quite different and would have seemed extremely anti-climactic on screen.
I was a toddler when the movie came out but read the book in middle school. Definitely some interesting/racy stuff that didn't make it into the movie. Agreed on the ending change as well.
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Speaking of historical sit-ins my "radical" grandmother took me to the Greensboro Woolworth sit-in in 1960 . I had just turned 9 years old. She was such an influence in my life and I blame her for me being the dumbass,clueless,woke lib that I am today
Speaking of historical sit-ins my "radical" grandmother took me to the Greensboro Woolworth sit-in in 1960 . I had just turned 9 years old. She was such an influence in my life and I blame her for me being the dumbass,clueless,woke lib that I am today
Great post Don. I too remember the ‘to go’ windows at restaurants that only black people used.
There were sit-ins before #Greensboro. I remember so-called ‘legal’ segregation. I recall doors or windows on the side or backs of restaurants where people of color could order and pick-up ‘to go’ orders. I have to imagine that for those people - citizens every one - m mm forced into such ‘second-class’ situations, the memories are harsh, hard, and hurtful. This meanness was systemic and state-backed-it still bears rotten fruit across society.
Teach about it. Learn from it. Do not continue to cover it up nor permit the hidden poison to pollute. There are organized groups, among them many who are powerful on the Right, that are full-time obfuscators, engaged in a crusade to stall the growing effort to bring greater truth into our schools and society. They hatefully misrepresent this effort and hurl buzz words from their platforms and pulpits and in ways that would make Orwell proud assert that the ones who seek to include the entire narrative in our education are the ones that are dividing. Don’t let them fool you. These people are several generations deep in their campaign to sell #FakeHistory. Time to stop them.
#OTD [June 23] 1957 6 youths + Rev. Doug MJ Moore entered segregated Royal Ice Cream in #Durham on the “Whites Only” side and sat down. Arrested for trespassing, a jury found them guilty. Appeals ensued to SCOTUS, who refused to hear the case. The children led. Landmark Sit-Ins Before Woolworth’s
I was not yet alive during that era, but it blows my mind that proponents of segregation tried to sell the whole “separate but equal” thing. There was absolutely nothing equal when it came to segregation, nor was there the slightest appearance of it.
There were sit-ins before #Greensboro. I remember so-called ‘legal’ segregation. I recall doors or windows on the side or backs of restaurants where people of color could order and pick-up ‘to go’ orders. I have to imagine that for those people - citizens every one - m mm forced into such ‘second-class’ situations, the memories are harsh, hard, and hurtful. This meanness was systemic and state-backed-it still bears rotten fruit across society.
Teach about it. Learn from it. Do not continue to cover it up nor permit the hidden poison to pollute. There are organized groups, among them many who are powerful on the Right, that are full-time obfuscators, engaged in a crusade to stall the growing effort to bring greater truth into our schools and society. They hatefully misrepresent this effort and hurl buzz words from their platforms and pulpits and in ways that would make Orwell proud assert that the ones who seek to include the entire narrative in our education are the ones that are dividing. Don’t let them fool you. These people are several generations deep in their campaign to sell #FakeHistory. Time to stop them.
#OTD [June 23] 1957 6 youths + Rev. Doug MJ Moore entered segregated Royal Ice Cream in #Durham on the “Whites Only” side and sat down. Arrested for trespassing, a jury found them guilty. Appeals ensued to SCOTUS, who refused to hear the case. The children led. Landmark Sit-Ins Before Woolworth’s
Keep in mind that was 65 years ago and today I'm losing brain cells by the hour
After the Civil Rights Act made separate seating for blacks and whites in restaurants illegal, I remember eating in a BBQ restaurant in my hometown at the counter. My cousin and I were sitting on stools at the counter. A couple of seats down was a black couple also eating at the counter. The owner of the restaurant came with a pitcher of (of course) sweetened tea to refill our glasses. When she did, she whispered to us that she couldn't leave the pitcher, surreptitiously glanced at the black couple, and added, "They know they are supposed to eat in the back." "In the back" was a separate seating area on the other side of the kitchen. After the owner walked away, my cousin, from New Jersey--just south of NYC--gave me a "You have got to be kidding me look." I whispered, "We'll talk after we leave." After we left, I explained that while I was ashamed of not getting up and walking out when the owner whispered her racist's nonsense, I further explained that the owner was one of my father's customers and while I disagreed with what she said, the passage of time would be a much more powerful agent for change than anything I could do or say in the late 1960's. Or at least that was how I rationalized my silent and impotent opposition of racism as a teen-ager.
