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Post by Brenda on Jul 13, 2015 20:49:34 GMT -5
I found this less than an hour ago...my mouth is still hanging open. Yes, I did watch it all. It's "You Can't Do That On Television" from 1987:
I've heard of that show, but I've never watched it before. When my kids were young, they loved to go to my parents' house and watch TV because they had cable and we didn't. They always said Mammaw and Pappaw wouldn't let them watch "You Can't Do That on Television." I had no idea what it was, but now I can see why "Mammaw and Pappaw" wouldn't let them watch it.
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Post by nedandres on Jul 13, 2015 23:24:03 GMT -5
It is true that the Walton family, in general, were politically correct, but there are exceptions, one of which being when Jason told his family that Toni was Jewish, and Ben especially took exception to that. The Waltons, as most people, were products of the time in which they lived and had flaws as all of us do. That is one of the beauties of the show, that we are allowed into their world, imperfections and all, and valuable lessons can be learned from that.
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Post by rickking on Sept 19, 2020 12:17:40 GMT -5
Talk about politically incorrect! I've never seen anyone on this board mention this, but do you know the lyrics to "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny?" Below are the Ray Charles lyrics, and when you read them, you might find them shocking!
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow, There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring time, There's where the darkies' heart am longed to go.
There's where I labored so hard for old massa, Day after day in the field of yellow corn, No place on earth do I love more sincerely, Than old Virginny the state where I was born.
Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where I lived till I withered and decay, Long by the old dismal swarm have I wandered, There's where these old darkies' life am passed away.
Massa and misses, have long gone before me, Soon we'll meet on that bright and golden shore. There's where we'll happy and free from all sorrow, There's where we'll live and we'll never part no more.
Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow, There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring time, There's where the old darkies' heart am longed to go.
Nobody would dare put this song into a TV program today!
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Post by Brenda on Sept 19, 2020 13:17:01 GMT -5
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was the Virginia state song until 1997 when it was retired due to the controversial racist lyrics. I seem to remember we have discussed it here on the forum in the past, but I can’t find the thread now. I did find this post from 2017: I do like "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," but that song would never fly nowadays. It's about a newly freed slave who struggled to find work and longed for his home in ol' Virginny.
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Post by Brenda on Sept 19, 2020 13:23:42 GMT -5
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was written by an African American, James A. Bland, who was born in 1854 in New York in a free family, so he was never a slave; yet he wrote this song supposedly from the perspective of a freed slave. He was college educated and he performed in minstrel shows. James A. Bland
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Post by mothergoose on Sept 19, 2020 13:35:40 GMT -5
I really hope The Walton’s show don’t come under fire and get pulled from the air. The episode where John Boy was going to publish excerpts from Mein Kamps, and there was going to be a book burning...Rev Fordwick leading, the crowd singing “Carry Me Back To Ol Virginny.” One of the worst moments on the show. Certainly, that song would never fly nowadays.
The song used to represent Virginia now is “Shenandoah.”
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Post by rickking on Sept 19, 2020 13:45:02 GMT -5
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was the Virginia state song until 1997 when it was retired due to the controversial racist lyrics. I seem to remember we have discussed it here on the forum in the past, but I can’t find the thread now. I did find this post from 2017: I do like "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," but that song would never fly nowadays. It's about a newly freed slave who struggled to find work and longed for his home in ol' Virginny. I don't think the song can be considered "racist," unless Ray Charles was also a racist for singing it.
Racism is a horrible, evil thing, but the word gets thrown around so easily and frequently that it loses its significance.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Sept 19, 2020 16:37:55 GMT -5
What people don't understand is back in the 30s and 40s things were different. We can't look at the time period with 2020 eyes😎
Im not sure if John and Olivia really could have afforded another mouth to feed(can't remember the boys name but Todd Bridges played him). It seems adopting was easier back then bc you didn't see Verdie filling out paperwork.
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Post by rickking on Sept 19, 2020 17:22:31 GMT -5
What people don't understand is back in the 30s and 40s things were different. We can't look at the time period with 2020 eyes😎 Im not sure if John and Olivia really could have afforded another mouth to feed(can't remember the boys name but Todd Bridges played him). It seems adopting was easier back then bc you didn't see Verdie filling out paperwork. Agreed. Too many people today look through today's lenses at things that happened long in the past. It was a different world, a different society back then. Things we know today were wrong, they didn't know at the time those things were wrong. They were simply the way things were.
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Post by patriciaanne on Sept 21, 2020 8:34:53 GMT -5
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was the Virginia state song until 1997 when it was retired due to the controversial racist lyrics. I seem to remember we have discussed it here on the forum in the past, but I can’t find the thread now. I did find this post from 2017: I don't think the song can be considered "racist," unless Ray Charles was also a racist for singing it.
Racism is a horrible, evil thing, but the word gets thrown around so easily and frequently that it loses its significance.
I so agree with that point. Certainly there are real racists in the world. But we have now diluted the meaning of that terrible word to use as a weapon against people who have a different point of view.
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