Comments on: Amos ‘n’ Andy Explained http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: KA Turner http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1049063 KA Turner Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:38:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/13/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1049063 We have rewarded uneducated talk by making it protected. Its ridicule is now close to being a hate crime. All this does is divide us further; I have not seen us come closer to one another but further with the cleansing of seemingly offensive thought and tastes. We have rewarded uneducated talk by making it protected. Its ridicule is now close to being a hate crime. All this does is divide us further; I have not seen us come closer to one another but further with the cleansing of seemingly offensive thought and tastes.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023439 Firebrand38 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:24:32 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/13/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023439 Check and Double Check is available for viewing or downloading at http://www.archive.org/details/CheckandDoubleCheck Check and Double Check is available for viewing or downloading at http://www.archive.org/details/CheckandDoubleCheck

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023434 Firebrand38 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:23:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/13/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023434 Available for download here as a matter of fact http://www.archive.org/details/amosandy1 Available for download here as a matter of fact http://www.archive.org/details/amosandy1

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023256 jayessell Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:42:05 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/13/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1023256 "Smartness"? Has that word fallen into disfavor during the last 78 years? They did make that movie. "Check and Double Check" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020758/ Available on DVD! Of course, many of their radio shows are available on MP3 CDs. (Will not play on conventional CD players, but will play in DVD players, PCs and CD players with MP3 compatability.) Search for OTR (old time radio) Is it me or one of my alternate personalities that suspects Psycologists of just making things up? “Smartness”?
Has that word fallen into disfavor during the last 78 years?

They did make that movie.
“Check and Double Check”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020758/
Available on DVD!

Of course, many of their radio shows are available on MP3 CDs.
(Will not play on conventional CD players, but will play in DVD players, PCs and CD players with MP3 compatability.)
Search for OTR (old time radio)

Is it me or one of my alternate personalities that suspects Psycologists of just making things up?

]]> By: glindsey http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/14/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1022881 glindsey Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:52:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/13/amos-n-andy-explained/#comment-1022881 The matter-of-fact racism exhibited in the article (e.g. "Cultured human beings like to display their superiority over inferior classes and races by criticizing their grammar and pronunciation") makes my jaw drop. I understand that it was a different time, but it's still mind-boggling to think that this was the norm at one time. (And sad to think that it still <i>is</i> the norm for some people.) The matter-of-fact racism exhibited in the article (e.g. “Cultured human beings like to display their superiority over inferior classes and races by criticizing their grammar and pronunciation”) makes my jaw drop. I understand that it was a different time, but it’s still mind-boggling to think that this was the norm at one time. (And sad to think that it still is the norm for some people.)

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