Posted on 06/27/2010 10:08:38 AM PDT by prplhze2000
Interesting traveltalk short film about Natchez from 1937. Felt VERY sorry for the blacks in the film. Worth watching.
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What you should be feeling is anger toward the Demon crat Party who's responsible for robbing blacks of their glorious American history. Read American in Black & White, it'll really piss you off!
Why?
Heh! How’d ya’ like that pink outfit? Ol’ Rahmy would look good in that!
Very ENJOYABLE film, thanks. I remember watching
Fitzpatrick’s films on Saturday afternoon TV in the 60s.
Makes me want to tour Natchez, but most of the good stuff is
probably gone. From historical readings, the lower part
of Natchez was a hooligan hangout. I remember seeing
some slave homes like those in the film, near highways in E Texas but never stopped to take pics. Gone now.
I grew up in the South in the late 50’s. At that time, many whites and blacks lived in bleak situations (i.e. poor houses). This was because the South was just DIRT POOR at that time.
Even today I am sure that you can find a white or black child who does not even own a comb much less know how to us one.
So please, give us a break. Don't tell us that the blacks are being pushed down. At the time this film was taken whites were also being subjected to abject poverty.
My wife and I drove the 444-mile Natchez Trace last summer from Nashville to Natchez. While in Natchez, we took a guided tour of Melrose, which is now a National Historical Park. It was interesting.
Hi,
I grew up in the South in the late 50’s. At that time, many whites and blacks lived in bleak situations (i.e. poor houses). This was because the South was just DIRT POOR at that time.
Even today I am sure that you can find a white or black child who does not even own a comb much less know how to us one.
So please, give us a break. Don’t tell us that the blacks are being pushed down. At the time this film was taken whites were also being subjected to abject poverty.
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I agree, I can take you to places now in 2010 where whites and blacks are still in poverty.
The South was robbed by Lincoln and his legions.
“No merrier people ever lived then the colored folks of the pre-war South.”
Seriously, you agree with that?
Jumping to conclusions?
I didn’t say that.
But personally I’d rather be barefoot playing dice
that done up in those iron-maiden costumes the evil
white folks in the vid were wearing.
Feeling sorry for a group of folks is one thing.
Feeling sorry for some folks in a video is another.
I like old grandma spitting off the porch! Epic!
The white folks? Dancing around in sixty-five pounds of clothing? Not so much.
No, a lot of it is still there. What you’re referring to is Natchez-Under-The-Hill, below the bluffs right on the river, and a lot of that is gone, but a few buildings still remain. I would recommend visiting, though you’re not likely to see that overdone MGM dress-up stuff.
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