Welcome back…been so hot and the humidity so bad I was waiting for it to cool off a bit. This evening is perfect back porch  pondering weather… 81 degrees and a cool breeze. I have been trying to clear my head some but one thought won’t go away. We all are aware of this gender uproar, which by the way I am now trying to just ignore. I like to attribute by attitude not to politeness but to that old John Wayne axiom, “Man gotta do what a man gotta do” and in this case that goes for the ladies also. Even this way of thinking does not relieve me of the questions…why does a middle age man desire to dress like a woman and to make it harder to understand…Why seek to expose young children to their chosen …whatever it is? What this gender mess leads me to believe is that a lot of folks are not happy with who they are and of course nobody thought to ask God about this mess, after all God created you as you are. That is another thing to ponder here on the back porch and that leads me to this…The things we do to destroy anything that doesn’t fit the narrative.

I don’t know how you folks feel about this Woke stuff but I want to go on record as saying it ain’t anything new. The damage it has done to history and the preserving of the great cultural heritage’s that have shaped our nation is a terrible tragedy. Two things I want to share with you this evening. Back to the fifties, I was still in high school when I was first introduced to these two treasures.  

Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action/animated  drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson; produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the Uncle Remus stories as adapted by Joel Chandler Harris, and stars James Baskett as Uncle Remus in his final film role. Johnny befriends Uncle Remus, an elderly worker on the plantation, and takes joy in hearing his tales about the adventures of Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Fox, and Br’er Bear. Johnny learns from the stories how to cope with the challenges he is experiencing while living on the plantation.

(Wikipedia) 

This film should be a national treasure, the music score and the the absolute brilliance of the performance of James Baskett, the talent of Walt Disney and his people leaves us with some lessons of life that are priceless. This is an early example of woke and the destruction it leaves in its path, when reason is kidnaped by social justice warriors to further their agendas. 

This is a tough one… Every afternoon I would rush home from school to see this show. It was and still is one of my favorite TV shows of the early days. This is a piece from  https://en.wikipedia.org. Amos ’n” Andy is an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago and later in the Harlem section of New York City. In 1951 CBS launched the Amos ‘n’ Andy television series, with African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams, Jr., playing Amos and Andy, respectively. The show was the first TV series to feature an all-black cast.

It is tough because the tensions of the time do lend some reality to the action taken.That said, the price we paid was not being able to laugh at these people…but being denied the chance to laugh with them. Such a rich culture and perseverance they had to make the best out of every day life. The acting and the writing were superb and I never felt like they were being belittled or being made fun of…this show made my day better every time I watched it. It is a shame that we can no longer laugh together…that is what we should Wake up to! 

See you on the back porch next time, you are always welcome

jk