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So, apparently, Beyoncé actually made history now being the most awarded Grammy winner of all time with 32 Grammy wins.

Let’s all pretend to say something nice about her and act as if we are supposed to be care celebrate her success.
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There's lots of Karens who'll hate that rant about Black History month then American Thinker posted.
February 8, 2023

Celebrating Black History Month with A Song​

By Jerry Jacover


In celebrating Black history month this year, I thought it would be fitting to finally recognize a triumph of African American literature that has, ironically, been falsely accused of racism. That achievement is embodied in a 1946 Walt Disney movie entitled Song of the South. I assume many of you have not seen the film because Disney has succumbed to the accusations of racism by refusing to re-release it in any form. Nonetheless, you may at least recognize the film’s buoyant Academy Award winning song, “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” which arguably forms the musical backbone of the movie.
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Song of the South takes place on a Georgia plantåation about ten years after the Civil War. The main character is Uncle Remus, an elderly Black storyteller who captivates the children with Aesop-like fables derived from Africa. The tales center on a prankster named Br’er Rabbit who must use his wits to escape from the predatory intentions of Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear. As the film’s credits acknowledge, Uncle Remus was an invention of an American writer by the name of Joel Chandler Harris.
Joel Chandler Harris, the illegitimate son of an Irish-American woman, was born in rural Georgia in 1848. At the age of 14, poverty forced Harris to quit school and go to work on the nearby Turnwald plantation. In his free time, however, the curious teenager spent countless hours in the slave quarters, listening to fables recounted by various chroniclers of African culture. The stories were told in the prevalent dialect, and certainly included references to animals interacting with humans, including a spirited trickster akin to Br’er Rabbit himself.
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Super-Chevy454 said:
I hope that guy is ok and why I have an eerie feeling then that video could be edited with Keyboard Cat? Like this classic who never get old.
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Everybody talks about Isiah's voice change (which is hilarious, don't get me wrong) but nobody's talking about "wait that was w r o n g" at the end. That's a real underrated part that puts the cherry on top.
 
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Michael Winslow...the Man of 10,000 Voices.

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This is the guy who played Larvell Jones in all of the Police Academy movies and he made all of the sound effects himself. He is one of the best voice actors of all time and is generally a really laid-back guy in real life.

Then we have another example of how wokeness has actually dragged us backwards in terms of race relations. Geordi LaForge as played by LeVar Burton.

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The cool thing about LaForge, is that he was an engineer and he acted like it. He did not speak in "ebonics" and he was very cerebral and soft-spoken. This should be held up as something that everybody should aspire to regardless of their race or cultural background. Not to mention his visor was badass.

However, even during the late-1980's and early 1990's when Star Trek: The Next Generation originally aired, you still had malcontents complaining about how he was portrayed as being "too white" or not representative of the black experience and a lot of activists smeared LaVar Burton's character as being an "Uncle Tom". As Star Trek was supposed to be a post-racial, humanistic setting, you had a character that avoided all of these old stereotypes, and certain demographics were still not happy.
 
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Nonconsentual Pronouns said:
Don't forget about Reading Rainbow.
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Of course...they used to have it on the local station when I was five years old. Sadly, his demographic does not seem like it promotes literacy much anymore.

I am not a racist, as I do not think that any race is innately inferior to any other, however, I do not think that all cultures are equal as I think some are indeed superior to others. American urban black culture seems like cancer as it has spread like it and is harmful to both other cultures as well as blacks themselves for the dysfunctional thinking and groupthink it seems to cause.

Still, no culture is perfect.
 
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Funny, though hard, to think that this album turned 20 years old this past week. I say this as someone who used to think 50 was generic and lame, and fast forward to today, I‘ve found myself listening to this album multiple times over the years.

Growing up is a real funny thing.
 
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Michael Winslow...the Man of 10,000 Voices.

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This is the guy who played Larvell Jones in all of the Police Academy movies and he made all of the sound effects himself. He is one of the best voice actors of all time and is generally a really laid-back guy in real life.

Then we have another example of how wokeness has actually dragged us backwards in terms of race relations. Geordi LaForge as played by LeVar Burton.

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The cool thing about LaForge, is that he was an engineer and he acted like it. He did not speak in "ebonics" and he was very cerebral and soft-spoken. This should be held up as something that everybody should aspire to regardless of their race or cultural background. Not to mention his visor was badass.

However, even during the late-1980's and early 1990's when Star Trek: The Next Generation originally aired, you still had malcontents complaining about how he was portrayed as being "too white" or not representative of the black experience and a lot of activists smeared LaVar Burton's character as being an "Uncle Tom". As Star Trek was supposed to be a post-racial, humanistic setting, you had a character that avoided all of these old stereotypes, and certain demographics were still not happy.
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Niggers complaining that a black man isn't acting like a stereotype from a Jim Crow segregationist phamplet lol.
 
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