Boring people like me watch C-SPAN.
Boring people like me watch C-SPAN. I was actually looking to see if there was anything new (stop laughing) about Scotus & Potus. Obs there wasn't, so flipping channels found this. It was very interesting.
First of all, the whole "1980's" caught my attention, because this is during my lifetime. That, and it's after when we were taught "the civil rights era" was. So everything was all better, wasn't it? Mm, no. So it was very educational, including listening to the students asking and discussing.
Frex, would not have paid attention to boxing, but he talked about a title fight between Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney in 1982. In addition to what I suspect is widely known (it was promoted as black vs. white, Great White Hope, threats of violence, etc.), he said the dressing rooms were set up differently. There was a phone with an outside line in Cooney's dressing room so the President could call and congratulate him if he won. There was no corresponding phone in Holmes' dressing room. When I hear stuff like this my reaction is basically a cartoon image of wide pop-eyes, dropped jaw, and stunned shock. I truly do not understand that sort of thinking, that sort of horrible, aggressive, deliberately intentional nastiness.
Anyway, it's a college lecture, so you might get bored, but the context and info is very informative. Also, Scotus & Potus would be my new hastag for the remainder of this political year if g+ allowed non-alpha numeric characters.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?400313-1/sport-race-1980s
http://www.c-span.org/video/?400313-1/sport-race-1980s
First of all, the whole "1980's" caught my attention, because this is during my lifetime. That, and it's after when we were taught "the civil rights era" was. So everything was all better, wasn't it? Mm, no. So it was very educational, including listening to the students asking and discussing.
Frex, would not have paid attention to boxing, but he talked about a title fight between Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney in 1982. In addition to what I suspect is widely known (it was promoted as black vs. white, Great White Hope, threats of violence, etc.), he said the dressing rooms were set up differently. There was a phone with an outside line in Cooney's dressing room so the President could call and congratulate him if he won. There was no corresponding phone in Holmes' dressing room. When I hear stuff like this my reaction is basically a cartoon image of wide pop-eyes, dropped jaw, and stunned shock. I truly do not understand that sort of thinking, that sort of horrible, aggressive, deliberately intentional nastiness.
Anyway, it's a college lecture, so you might get bored, but the context and info is very informative. Also, Scotus & Potus would be my new hastag for the remainder of this political year if g+ allowed non-alpha numeric characters.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?400313-1/sport-race-1980s
http://www.c-span.org/video/?400313-1/sport-race-1980s
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