| Posted: 22 June 2020 at 8:37am | IP Logged | 9
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I agree entirely, Mr. Byrne. One step at a time, no matter how small, is how change begins. Just look outside the window to see it IN ACTION RIGHT NOW. Our children and grandchildren may well ask us how the equal rights began, and we were alive to see it, and relate it!
One thing bothers me.* Far too many modern people look at Steamboat, or Uncle Ben's rice, or "Gone with the Wind", or Amos and Andy, and say, "How is this possible? How could they allow these travesties?"
They lack historical context. At the time, it was the standard, and there was nothing else to compare it to. Was it abhorrent? Absolutely. But racism and religionism were rampant, and it was hard to put up much resistance.
Judging those occurrences by today's standards is a fool's game. Observing them and the changes afterwards are not. But one cannot expect to experience those with today's eyes and be mystified. What should be done is what's being done; prologues are being added to explain what they're seeing. DC's been doing it for a while now, and obviously "Gone with the Wind" will follow suit; I have to assume that more such will do the same.
Learn from the past; change today; but don't judge it. It can't hold up.
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