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Lynda -
 
I read your post and put it aside for a while so I could think about  it.
 
I am lucky to have been blessed with the world's most liberal,  fair-minded 
parents and siblings. Never mind anyone beyond immediate family -  one 
staunch 
religious group on one side, and another devout buncha folks on the  other. 
We 
were never encouraged to take their rigid, biased thinking into  account.
 
Is Gone With the Wind an entertaining movie? I s'pose it is - I know the  
story, but have never seen it. Not just because I haven't gotten to the point 
 
yet that I consider cinema to be an 'art form' - but it's pure and simple  
fiction. The term 'stylized' comes to mind...the same as drawing two curves  
and a 
straight line, and calling it a fish.  Is Jeff Foxworthy funny? On  the 
surface, yeah. But there's a sad undercurrent that's demeaning and  
small-minded - 
and leaves a bad taste in my mental mouth.
 
It's too bad that there's money, and it's too bad that there's politics  (one 
and the same, most of the time), because they disallow us the opprotunity  to 
sit down and look back, and fix things on a simple human level before we  
plunge into the future armed with just lots and lots of preconceived notions  
that are not only hurtful, but that might determine - and wrongly - our 
future  
as a nation.
 
Take a good look and tell me - what do you think are the chances of this  
happening again?
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave 
 
 



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