I thought he was too. I still don't see how that's racist.
This reminds me when I was in high school, we had a maid who stayed at our house 3 days a week and at the neighbors house 3 days a week and then went home to her own house in Santa Monica on Sundays. She was the neatest lady....she was like Uncle Remus always cheerful and had such a positive outlook on life and was very religious. Actually she reminded me of Aunt Gemima in the movies. I used to go to her room in the evenings and talk with her. She was my buddy.
I remember she had a wish board where she put up pictures of things she was wishing for....she said....that's the way you get things. She had a car on the board.....she wanted a car so she could drive to work instead of taking the bus. I thought her wishboard idea was cute.
She was very supportive of me and much more motherly toward me than my own mother. Eventually my mother didn't like it that she was so supportive of me and so she fired her. I thought my mother was mean.
But, I always remembered this lady ( her name was Arlene) with fond feelings. She was poor as a church mouse, but so down to earth and loving and caring. My parents had money, but she was very rich in heart and spirit. There was a big difference between her spiritual attitude toward life and my parents who were hardcore materialists. I used to think it was very unfair that a person as nice as she was, was stuck in a servile position with no way out of it at her age....she was probably around 60 at that time. She was a beautiful person.
Kids are like sponges. That can be good or bad, jes depends on who's lernin' dem.
I beg to differ with the boys, Face and Ted. This is not a beautiful story. I've seen it more than once. The nanny likes the kids, the kids will do anything for the nanny. The mother doesn't like the competition and fires the nanny. The only difference is nowadays the nanny isn't black , but comes from Guatemala or Mexico and is illegal to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PHPNzvUUU&feature=fvst
There in her home country, live her children, who she sends money to. It is a really shitty deal. She gets to drive the Beemer to take the kids to school and pick them up, get groceries, and she lives in a one bedroom apartment with roaches, a huge ass motherfuckin' large TV, and three or four others.
It is not OK. It is not beautiful. The couples, who hire the nannies, pay them bupkis. They can fire them at the drop of a hat. They pay more for their wine than they do their maids. It is part of the haves and the have-nots mindset that the haves have. (yes I meant that to be funny). "People, who work for you get little pay" "We have to economize, let's only go to Kona for a week."
Not all rich people are like that, but there are certainly plenty. Especially in Hollywood, West LA, etc and Silicon Valley.
On the "Two Leaders Compared" thread, DM and Steve Jobs are the two. I can tell you that Steve Jobs had a very smart local girl / woman raising his kids when they were young. She wasn't paid wetback wages either. She bought a new Volvo and was quite happy with life.
Speaking for myself and my wife, we raised our kids without nannies. Just like with dogs and horses, bonding takes place at a young age. I wanted my kids bonded to us, not anybody else. I wanted them looking at life as we did. We specifically didn't want our kids copying bad English ("her and me, we's goin' shoppin'").
if someone is so rich, that they need a nanny to raise their kids, then I think the priorities are skewed. Raising kids is fun.
I'm down with learning as many languages as you can when you're a kid, i just don't want illiteracy lerned.
What do you think of the idea of forwarding this sequence of Uncle Remus posts to the NAACP?
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Wow! What a cleverly, and rather accurately, expressed demo of how we split from our true infinite selves to think that the other part of us is not "us." (And other nonsense we pulled on ourselves
Where do you find these treasures Ted?
I think we'll have to appoint you our official finder of good things!!
R
Yeh, the political correctness thing has gone bonkers and is the exemplar of abandoned common sense.
I remember all the brouhaha some years back when Pres Carter and Ted Turner were watching The Braves in the World Series, and the Braves fans were swinging there foam hatchets like Indian warriors.
Jeezzuzz, the press and media filled with screeming PC on how disrespectful it was to portray the native Americans "so negatively." And that maybe, the team should be renamed!!
Ummm, pardon me for noticing, but a team owner doesn't name his sports team after something he does not respect and honor . . . and nor do fans celebrate the success of such unless they share that honoring!
Helloooo . . . wake up you PC types! Let folks honor what is appreciated as fine and worthy without all the put down shit from your negative minds!
Rog
Hah! That's what you are *supposed* to think.
A couple of years ago I read that the real purpose of the whole PC trip was to accustom people to the idea of having to follow laws/rules that were plainly stupid.
It could well be true, although I am not proposing that everything "PC" that is being pushed is being done by people with this end view in mind.
Paul
Uncle Remus was not the only one I admired. Here's another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3isgUZe5Y
EP
Hah! That's what you are *supposed* to think.
A couple of years ago I read that the real purpose of the whole PC trip was to accustom people to the idea of having to follow laws/rules that were plainly stupid.
It could well be true, although I am not proposing that everything "PC" that is being pushed is being done by people with this end view in mind.
Paul
Uncle Remus was not the only one I admired. Here's another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3isgUZe5Y
EP
I beg to differ with the boys, Face and Ted. This is not a beautiful story. I've seen it more than once. The nanny likes the kids, the kids will do anything for the nanny. The mother doesn't like the competition and fires the nanny. The only difference is nowadays the nanny isn't black , but comes from Guatemala or Mexico and is illegal to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PHPNzvUUU&feature=fvst
There in her home country, live her children, who she sends money to. It is a really shitty deal. She gets to drive the Beemer to take the kids to school and pick them up, get groceries, and she lives in a one bedroom apartment with roaches, a huge ass motherfuckin' large TV, and three or four others.
It is not OK. It is not beautiful. The couples, who hire the nannies, pay them bupkis. They can fire them at the drop of a hat. They pay more for their wine than they do their maids. It is part of the haves and the have-nots mindset that the haves have. (yes I meant that to be funny). "People, who work for you get little pay" "We have to economize, let's only go to Kona for a week."
Not all rich people are like that, but there are certainly plenty. Especially in Hollywood, West LA, etc and Silicon Valley.
On the "Two Leaders Compared" thread, DM and Steve Jobs are the two. I can tell you that Steve Jobs had a very smart local girl / woman raising his kids when they were young. She wasn't paid wetback wages either. She bought a new Volvo and was quite happy with life.
Speaking for myself and my wife, we raised our kids without nannies. Just like with dogs and horses, bonding takes place at a young age. I wanted my kids bonded to us, not anybody else. I wanted them looking at life as we did. We specifically didn't want our kids copying bad English ("her and me, we's goin' shoppin'").
if someone is so rich, that they need a nanny to raise their kids, then I think the priorities are skewed. Raising kids is fun.
I'm down with learning as many languages as you can when you're a kid, i just don't want illiteracy lerned.
