Monday, October 19, 2009

The Good Ole Days

There is none so dangerous as the white American who waxes nostalgic about what he or she likes to call "the good old days." Or, alternately, those "simpler" times, or the era of so-called "innocence" remembered from their childhoods, memorialized in a Norman Rockwell painting, or via televised re-runs of the Cleaver family, or Opie Taylor casting a line down at the ol' fishin' hole.

I've never been a proponent of the "good ole days". Tim Wise articulates this well in this article, especially relative to the current political climate.

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