This episode of @reelsouth is about Black men who played and worked the (mostly segregated) golf courses in the mid 20th c. South. It is touching. pbs.org/video/muni-lai…
You don't often see Black men of a certain age and class in media this way, not even in documentary media.
It isn't a "big" civil rights story. But it I like small, intimate stories of the Great Migration Generation. This is one of those.
The Black men in your lives, especially, might enjoy this.
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Almost every day on this app someone tells me they disagree with what I tweeted by arguing...for exactly what I just tweeted. And I swear to god it is working against my plan to become a good person.
Me: that's green.
You, a philosopher of impeccable pedigree and moral fortitude: I DISAGREE. THAT IS BLUE AND YELLOW MIXED TOGETHER
A couple of weeks ago I asked for books similar to a named book. A person recommended the book I named.
One time, I flew to New York to get my hair done over the weekend. Between mother’s travel benefits and my aunt owning the salon, it was actually cheaper than going to the salon at home. The girls at school did NOT see it that way on Monday. Whew.
I was in upward bound that summer (which should tell you that we weren’t rich) and my “best friend” stole my favorite outfit after this. In retrospect, I may have deserved it.
A conversation with vivian about gas shortages ends with a story about how Spanky had a white girl whose father owned a gas station so the Party was able to get the gas they needed to run the community ambulances during the 70s gas crisis. Ma’am. Spanky???
“Spanky could have gotten killed messing with that white woman. But, you know. You did what you had to do.”
Y’all did great with my kindle recommendations. No good deed and all that so I’m back for more help. Mother loves audiobooks. She mostly checks them out from the library. On CD. Is there a seamless (integrated) digital audio book tool/platform? Something with no converting etc?
Let me clarify. Is there something like a kindle but for audiobooks that won’t require converting soles etc because I don’t have time to walk her through it every time she downloads a new book.