JakeHolman

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > Well sure they do. Hundreds of Hollywood films in the 1930s and 40s taught all Americans that black people were all stupid and uneducated. And that was the big era of the lynching of black people in this country.>> > > FredC, > > Stereotypes have existed long before the 1930s and 1940s and those stereotypes were in play even before film was invented. Hollywood did not teach "all Americans that black people were stupid and uneducated", from the South to the North to the Southwest to the Pacific Northwest, that stereotype existed and people believed it, just as they believed that Irish were drunks and Italians were mobsters. > > "No Irish need apply" was around long before the movies. > > We were a country of people who too often believed the stereotype instead of the truth because that was the norm back then. > > I am not saying that every town and city was like that. Obviously, as you have posted, where you grew up was not like that. But the majority of towns and cities were. > > Hollywood movies portrayed those stereotypes because those stereotypes were commonly held beliefs all around the country. > > Blacks did not have the right to vote, they could not stay in any hotel they wanted to nor could they dine in all restaurants. Black children could not attend white schools until Brown vs the Board of Education and the Supreme Court changed that. Separate but equal was the belief of the day. > > From Maine to Washington to California to Florida, there were laws on the books forbidding Blacks from voting to restrictions on where they could and could not live, shop, go to church and go to school. Those restrictions also applied to what jobs they could apply for. > > > Hollywood didn't cause that. Those restrictions were in place long before the movies. It wasn't until Brown vs the Board of Education and the Supreme Court that schools would begin to change and it would be another ten to fifteen years before integrated schools in some Northern cities became the norm. > > Blacks would not gain the right to vote until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn't Hollywood keeping Blacks from voting, it was various communities around the United States. > > *Now that Hollywood has dropped that trend, starting in the 1970s, under pressure from Civil Rights organizations, there arent very many lynchings of black people anymore.* > > Lynchings became less prevalent because of the Civil Rights movement and the Freedom Riders. > > Night after night, on their nightly newscasts Americans watched in horror as sheriffs like Bull Connor turn fire hoses on groups of black children and teenagers because they wanted the right to eat at lunch counters and live their lives without the fear of segregation. > > Journalists like David Halberstam and many other unknown journalists and cameramen covered this story and brought home to Americans around the country as they read their morning paper and watched their nightly newcasts over dinner, the stories of Diane Nash, John Lewis, James Bevel and countless others in their struggle for equality. > > Americans watched as high school students spit on the black students trying to enter Central High in Little Rock. They watched in horror as those same white high school students basically said that blacks weren't as smart as they were and had no right being in their school. And they didn't call them blacks. They used the "N word" repeatedly. > > Americans watched as a small town in Mississippi refused to admit that three Freedom Riders had met with death from the Klan until the bodies of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were found in a nearby earthen dam. When brought to trial, the accused acted as if it were all a big ado about nothing and then walked away when the juror refused to convict them. > > Emmett Till, a young black teen from Chicago, was beat, tortured and murdered because he dared whistle at a white woman when he visiting family in Money, Mississippi. A 70 lb cotton gin fan was found tied to his body. His mother insisted on an open casket so that everyone would see "what they did to my boy." > > Medgar Evers, working to register black voters, was murdered outside his home as he walked from his driveway to his front door. His widow and children were inside and heard the shots. > > Hollywood did not teach these murders and those who covered the murders up to do this. > > Americans watched as the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech and were reminded of the better angels of our nature. > > Finally, we as a country realized that our stereotypical believes were part of the problem. > > Those beliefs, some of them dating back to the days of the Klan in the 1860s, were finally exposed for what they were. > > And things began to change. And Hollywood, as always, followed. > > Edited by: lzcutter for grammar What a sanctimonious... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwcpTOzdU5U

Sept 17... Hank Williams...Country Music Hall of Fame...King of Country...passed away... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvLeCMTofE People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American. Gary Cooper

Sept 16... Richard Marx... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8NnpmqfCs Joe Butler..Lovin Spoonful...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWXcjYNZais David Bellamy...Bellamy Brothers... Bernie Calvert...The Hollies...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7S8-Iewi0 B. B. King...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8QxOjuYHg In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Sept 15... Roy Acuff...passed away...Country Music Hall of Fame... In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Hey, Mr Mongo, I'd like to thank you, again, for the great pics you provide here. This thread is truly the class of this board. Jake

Sept 14... Joey Heatherton...she always got my attention... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy6E9BEborU&feature=related Barry Cowsill...Cowsills.. Steve Gaines...Lynyrd Skynyrd...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbTpssTGRI In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Sept 13... Joni Sledge...Sister Sledge... Maurice Jarre...passed away... Mel Torme...passed away... Peter Cetera...Chicago... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPVxyr185A&feature=fvst David Clayon-Thomas...Blood Sweat and Tears... In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

There ain't nothin' better than startin' a Sunday mornin' listinin' to The King of Rock--Elvis... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8MUbARRGSU May God Bless

Sept 12... Marie Muldaur... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUd3sX9mn9U Barry White...passed away... Gerry Beckley...America... Neil Peart...Rush... George Jones...Country Hall of Fame... In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Sept 11... Tommy Shaw...Styx... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2prQi1kh74&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqbn6xWH_g Jerry Scoggins...passed away... Dennis Tufano...The Buckinghams... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPqm9agIr8 In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Sept 10... Siobhan Fahey...Bananarama...Ah the 80's...man oh man the women were great... Danny Hutton...Three Dog Night... Jose Feliciano... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIC6KOFySk Carol Decker...T'Pau... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1VGTqovfP4 Joe Perry...Aerosmith...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py45RhylZaM In the beginning an actor impresses us with his looks, later his voice enchants us. Over the years, his performances enthrall us. But in the end, it is simply what he is. Charlton Heston

Sept 9... Freddy Weller...Paul Revere & The Raiders... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GswuYYTnzE Dee Dee Sharp... Doug Ingle...Iron Butterfly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvs8tdddn2o Otis Redding...R&R Hall of Fame... It's hard living up to Moses Charlton Heston.

Sept 8... Jimmie Rodgers...passed away... Patsy Cline...The One and Only...Country Music Hall of Fame...Sing it Patsy...passed away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZKiZG0u7oc Benjamin Orr...passed away...The Cars belong in the R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SvU6Puyj8&feature=related Sal Spampinato...The Beau Brummels... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZjldFCzco&feature=related It's hard living up to Moses Charlton Heston.

Sept 7... Gloria Gaynor... Chrissie Hynde...The Pretenters...R&R Hall of Fame Inductees.. Ronnie Dove... Buddy Holly...Buddy Holly & The Crickets...R&R Hall of Fame Inductees... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0-z0YCUV0 It's hard living up to Moses Charlton Heston. Edited by: JakeHolman on Sep 6, 2010 6:03 PM

Sept 6... Mark Chesnutt... Jimmy Reed...passed away... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNECdOGTabo&feature=related David Allan Coe... Mel McDaniel... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr3iGrQk-do Buddy Miller... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxdMQZGfZfM It's hard living up to Moses.. Charlton Heston

Sept 5... John Stewart...The Kingston Trio... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB0qJcUOdtc Freddie Mercury...Queen...R&R Hall of Fame Inductees... Al Stewart... It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

*NO*

This Sunday morning...Waylon Jennings... God Bless

Sept 4... Gene Parsons...The Byrds.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIilq3JdCT4 It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

*The National Enquirer*

Sept 3... Donna King Conkling...The King Sisters...passed away... Al Jardine...The Beach Boys...R&R Hall of Fame Inductee... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2WWw7nMhw4 It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

Sept 2... Bobby Purify... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4C47crSet8 Joe Simon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9vA4ILkQE Steve Porcaro...Toto... It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

Sept 1 B'days... Gloria estefan... Boxcar Willie...Country Music Hall of Fame...passed away... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qdxgam-xE4 Conway Twitty...Country Hall of Fame...passed away... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67GSo3MxGi0 Barry Gibb...Bee Gees...R&R Hall of Fame... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAm6ghep-M Archie Bell...The Drells... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdug40ZM-M It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

B'days Aug 31... Gina Schock...The Go Go's... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1BGKNk85M&ob=av2e Van Morrison...R&R Hall of Fame... It's hard living up to Moses. Charlton Heston

B'days Aug 30... Kitty Wells...Queen of Country...Country Hall of Fame inductee... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BMEGFWoGw John Phillips...Mamas and Papas...passed away... If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted, you think of me. Charlton Heston