I just finished watching the 1955: The Color of Truth episode of Quantum Leap where Al leaps back into
Driving Miss Daisy.
Which, as I check it, came out the same year that episode first aired.
Oh, it made me mad.
I would caution you, white readers of this board, should you jump into a black person's skin in the South while segregation is still enforced by law, please don't break the colour lines in a hide that you aren't going to stay in.
The episode just stank of the implication that if some black person had just had either the imagination or the cojones or both to sit at the lunch counter or take their family member to the white hospital then, well, they could have integrated the whole damn town.
But they didn't, so it's lucky a white guy came along and could do it for them.
It's funny--I watched anger erupt in bits of LJ fandom over racism in TV and movies in places where I just haven't seen it. I wonder if this episode represents an overlap, or if fandom du jour and I never the twain shall meet. Because this ep made me mad enough that I'm doing breathing exercises to prevent a migraine.
But they didn't, so it's lucky a white guy came along and could do it for them.
Kind of like how the FBI were heroes in
Mississippi Burning
instead of the black people who organized the freedom rides and protests.
Kind of like how the FBI were heroes in Mississippi Burning instead of the black people who organized the freedom rides and protests.
I never saw that, and I'm glad I didn't.
Quantum Leap had me thinking "Great, Al. Ten minutes after you leap out of his body he has to watch his granddaughter be gang-raped while their house burns down to the ground behind them."
Okay, I need to not think about that anymore. Play my next Scrabulous move and go to bed.
Yup, skipping again (do I need to mention that I work during the holiday? Um, because I do. I'll probably take half of today off, but still. Oh, well).
Anyway, this post is not a meMeME, but rather a mention that according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Betsy HP's birthday. I haven't seen posts from her very lovely font in quite a while (which could mean nothing, seeing as I am so sadly hardly ever keeping up with current posts anywhere anymore), but regardless of that, I hope the well-wishes find their way to her.
Happy birthday!
Nilly, will you still make it to Zilpa's lecture?
I'm so hungry today. Maybe my stomach got used to matzot in no time this year, but usually this stuff just blocks my will to eat after 5 minutes.
Tea, however, helps. Weird.
Shir, I hope I will make it to her lecture (that's the half-day-off I was posting about in those whiny sentences in my post above). You're in Jerusalem, though, right?
Yes, I won't make it. Not being in the convention isn't such a big deal like I thought it might be, though I'm still curious how they'll handle tonight's meeting.
Anyway, if you'll make it, will you say hi to all for me?
will you say hi to all for me?
Of course.
(It's funny to talk to you, alone - everybody else is timezoned to do other things - in English, here. Takes getting used to, I guess.)
