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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\nIt was a positive movie that took place during a time when Jim Crow was receding, and black and white people could indeed find not just racial tolerance, but go well beyond it: as Piccolo was hospitalized dying of cancer at the age of 26, Sayers had to attend an awards banquet, and as he received an award for bravery (overcoming a severe injury) he declared, \u201cI love Brian Piccolo,\u201d followed by clarifying who truly was brave. This was the movie that gave men permission to cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sayers and Piccolo were assigned to be roommates, which was pretty radical for the time, and there was a suggestion they received hate mail. In one scene Piccolo pretended to read such a letter: \u201cHow dare you share a room with a black person. What kind of low-life person were you raised to be? I find it disgraceful! Love, Mom<\/em>.\u201d There was gentle use of what we can now refer to only as \u201cthe N word,\u201d and what would now be regarded as a racist joke: as Piccolo lay dying talking on the phone with Sayers, there was a mention that Sayers had donated blood, to which Piccolo stated, \u201cNow I know where I got a hankering for chitlins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian\u2019s Song was an inherently sad movie, but 55 years later there is another sense of sadness that, while we came so close, we lost the chance to become a society not just of tolerance, but of mutual respect and equality, that a person should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. The ideals of peace, tolerance, and harmony proved to be at odds with the goals progressive racialists- wealth and power- and, as they gained the cultural upper hand, they did what they do: sow division, distrust, and discord and incite conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In regards to black people, the goal is convincing them they are hapless dependent victims, and to be grateful for the beneficence of those who protect them from what they created. Prominent white Democrats like Chuck Schumer, Jamie Raskin, and Elizabeth Warren tell black people they simply aren\u2019t capable, for example, of obtaining ID, and any requirement they do so is just like Jim Crow. They are backed up by obsequious elite black democrats to spread the word- believe what we tell you to believe because you can\u2019t think for yourselves, and keep dancing to whatever tune we play. Your characters are by nature substandard, so you need to let us exploit the color of your skin because otherwise you simply don\u2019t have what it takes. Trust us, and keep giving us the power to protect you against your many short comings as humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2002-2003 I was a volunteer medical director (PA) at a remote clinic in East Africa. This was during the peak of the soul-wrenching East African AIDS epidemic, superimposed on the never-ending endemic of blood destroying (literally) malaria. Everyday was one of death and suffering, but that\u2019s for another time. I had become friendly with an older guy who worked at the facility as a watchman. One night I was walking back to my cottage when I almost ran into him. I exclaimed, \u201cWilliam, you scared the heck out of me.\u201d He replied, \u201cMr. Reid, I saw you coming from 100 yards away.\u201d He then offered everything we need to know about race relations: \u201cYou are a white man, and I am a black man.\u201d Simple yet profound, and anything beyond that is just posturing and selfish politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Democrats are doing their predictable fearmongering, targeting susceptible blacks claiming that ID requirements for voting is \u201cJim Crow 2.\u201d I spent a fair amount of time in the deep south during the moribund days of Jim Crow 1 in the late 1970\u2019s. I did meet one or two literal KKK hate-filled types, but for the most part the racist-inclined whites didn\u2019t feel animosity towards blacks. As long as black people stayed in their place they were treated with kindness. It was understood that blacks were childlike, that they could perform simple tasks with appropriate guidance, and that they could be held only to the lowest standards. This was the benign form of progressive racism, and it never disappeared, rather it evolved into the Democrat progressive philosophy we see today. Warning of \u201cJim Crow 2\u201d is patently absurd and exploitative, and paradoxical because Jim Crow 1 remains alive and well in the minds and actions of of the Democrat establishment, who think black people are too stupid to obtain ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n by Reid Fitzsimons I recently watched the 1971 made-for-TV movie Brian\u2019s Song for the first time since 1971. It was amazing how I remembered scenes and even individual lines after 55 years. Brian was Brian Piccolo, an extroverted rookie running back with the Chicago Bears in the mid-60s, who became great friends with Gale Sayers, ...continue reading <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n