Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Got lucky at the drive thru Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:41:18 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <67f9a533$9$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="87dbe063bc08d64b276266bd8b183edc"; logging-data="1176594"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+cT/B/wx3XcziBf4anKzfj" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2SEFHhpPEbD239r14CaTA9bMsRY= Bytes: 2521 On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:09:15 -0400, Jill McQuown wrote: >On 4/12/2025 12:01 AM, Ed P wrote: >> On 4/11/2025 11:39 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >>> >>> Didn't used to be. Are we moving forward or backward? Do we glorify or >>> slander people by erasing their ethnicity and gender? >> >> Sure it was. >> >> https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/us/racist-origins-of-blackface/index.html >> >> It’s been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting >> their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the >> United States. It was racist and offensive then, and it’s still racist >> and offensive today. > >I watched a new episode of 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS a couple of weeks >ago. I watched American PBS the other day, for the first time in a long time. They were talking about Trump's tariffs and the damage they do to American businesses. Intelligent, reasonable people, no big mouths, no American chest-thumping attitude whatsoever. It felt like I was watching Europeans or Australians. The light was on in the US. -- Bruce