The last straw was when Hallmark chopped off the ending of a Columbo. Do yourself a favor. Treat yourself to the Murder She Wrote boxed sets.

Also the Perry Mason boxed sets are excellent.

Even shows on the network are crapped up with those promos for upcoming shows (they call them sniping. There are some network execs that need to be sniped!)

And on the flip side, Charlie Brown’s Christmas, a 25 minute show is put in an hour time slot so we can be bombarded by 35 minutes of commercials. This undermines the message of the show which is that Christmas in not about stuff.

No wonder viewership is down.

Even better is that such posters don’t get the last word even if we agree to disagree.

Murder She Wrote!

The NAACP complaining because of what the play’s title was in 1939? I laughed when I saw that LSB filed under “Lunacy”. That’s where it belongs.

As far as the NAACP having no important work left to do, well . . . as presently constituted, I agree. But the organization still has potential to do good with the right leadership.

Each time a director quits, I fantasize about applying for the job. If appointed, I would change its focus to promoting actual advancement instead of moaning about minor or nonexistent insults.

Since racism is no longer the primary obstacle to advancement for Colored People, and illegitimacy is, then why shouldn’t the NAACP de-emphasize fighting racism and redirect their primary effort to fight illegitimacy?

Just a fantasy, I know.

For starters, check out La Shawn’s archives on Native Americans.
1) Everyone born here is a Native American,
2) The Indians who met the Colonials were at one time migrants from Asia,
3) Naming a school and/or mascot after Indian tribes and/or objects (i.e. Sioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Tomahawk, Brave etc) is INDEED a form of paying respect. So spare us the contrived insult.

As for the content of the play, do you even know the story? If so, please point out where racism is promoted? Otherwise, please don’t spout talking points on the basis of fevered imaginings.

We’re often told by educators to never judge a book by its cover. I would also emphatically add that one shouldn’t judge a book by the catalog of words used, rather, judgment should be reserved for the arrangement of said catalog. By your standards, I’m guessing that you think Gone with the Wind, Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, among other classics, are also vile & racist books.

Not knowing the critical difference is indeed a sign of deep and abiding ignorance. It also further proof of a failing education system that mass-produces un-critical, but PC, citizens.

Finn, let’s be honest, here. You say a slave can call a fellow slave “slave”, but the son of the slave owner can’t. What about the son of the abolitionist? Why should he be blamed for something he not only didn’t do, but fought against? That’s really what your argument is saying. If “nigger” is an offensive word(and it is), it’s offensive when any person says it–otherwise the entire concept of racial equality means nothing.
When black people realize they’re degrading themselves by using the word, we’ll be on to something.

And Finn–”Wherever you are, or go, if you are dark-skinned, there is a negative name for you”? No. Wherever you are, or go, if you are dark-skinned, light-skinned, or somewhere in between, there is a negative name for you. If you are white, wherever you go there is a negative name for you, just as there is if you are black.
The difference is that most of the rest of us don’t use those words to refer to ourselves. Black people need to stop degrading themselves this way.

Heh heh heh!!!

I understand why “nigger” is an offensive term, but then, it needs to be perceived as offensive no matter who uses it. I strenuously object to referring to it as “the N word.” How ludicrous, as if “nigger” has so much power that to spell it out might destroy someone. Give me a break.

People find themselves on the wrong battlefield for one simple reason: cowardice. Some blacks are too afraid to fight real racism, and they don’t want to touch black racism at all. So they busy themselves with nonsense. Some gays are too afraid to fight real oppression (that’s why they can’t speak out against Islam, which calls for the wholesale slaughter of homosexuals) so they have to pretend that gay marriage is the most important human rights endeavor of the past five centuries. Some feminists (okay, MOST feminists) are too cowardly to speak out against the outrageous human rights abuses against women in Muslim countries, or even those Muslim immigrants right here at home who are being murdered for “honor,” and so they continue to natter on about abortion rights and the lack of government subsidized daycare, or the imaginary glass ceiling in the business world.

So many cowards and liars. But more people are waking up to what they are.