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January 21, 2003
Didn't do much for my opinion of the French, either
Odd. PBS' site is acting up this morning. . .
I didn't watch The Murder of Emmett Till last night on Network Chicago/Channel 11. There's a write-up at TV Barn if you're having the same problems getting through. . . I did see Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, though, which also got the Steve Rhodes treatment.
Source of the Quote of the Day at Ronn's, it was. And also of lots of things I really should have known or remembered, but didn't, because I suck. F'r instance:
- Odetta (who's still working) performed at the March on Washington, as did Mahalia Jackson. Oddly, I did remember that Bob Dylan and Joan Baez did, but I'll evasively blame this on selective, um, selecting of footage by the editors of the usual summaries. Hadn't realized there was that much footage of the thing, to be honest.
- France "carried out its first atom bomb test in the Sahara Desert of Nigeria" in 1960, and Rustin was part of a group headed to the site to protest. They didn't make it, and the test was performed, but somehow I don't recall ever reading about this. The ones in the Pacific, yes, but not one in Africa. No evasions here; I just suck.
- No matter how much I suck, Strom Thurmond will always be suckier. The clip of him denouncing Rustin also managed to remind me of similar statements made not so long ago by some conservative rent-a-quote guy or another. Do the people paying them know they're getting pre-driven quotes?
Off to read the Hentoff pieces linked to in the TV Barn write-up. I'm sure they'll annoy the hell out of me -- Hentoff excels at that for some reason -- so best to post this beforehand.
Posted by Aaron at January 21, 2003 11:36 AM
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