Read this for an art history survey class and it has affected my outlook on race, symbolism, and representation ever since. Very powerful.
@hmarcuse
10 жыл бұрын
This is a great story--I'd been looking for it for a years after hearing it on selected shorts, and was so glad I caught it on a rebroadcast in 2010. Now I find it easily accessible here!
@rg8993
8 жыл бұрын
My favorite story and I love the reading. Thank you so much for posting!
@mnshaw
9 жыл бұрын
I never get tired of this.
@rg8993
7 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way. This is one of my all time favorites!
@davidm5707
6 жыл бұрын
Great story. It especially resonated because my wife is from Columbia, and I met her on Two Notch Road. If only things had worked out like the story in real life...
@leggolandia
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I love this story. I wish it was better known. It's a paradigm shift.
@albr113
8 жыл бұрын
One of Selected Shorts BEST!!! 2nd best is Percival Everett's The Fixer read by Isaiah himself.
@loveroute66
4 жыл бұрын
I had never read this story. How delightful!
@janeelliott9297
4 жыл бұрын
I'm still charmed and wishing we could get to this place all together -
@Dave-du2gv
2 жыл бұрын
Very discerning man! Yes, there is no such biological entity, so to speak, as race. I am enjoying his new book, The Trees.
@user-vn6lw6uc5q
10 күн бұрын
I appreciate the story, but we're confusing expressions of hatred and racism with culture. Very, very different things.
@darthroden
4 жыл бұрын
LOL I have to say that I found this story to be most amusing, but not in the way many others reading it, or listening to this video think. I say that because I happen to be a supporter of the display of the Confederate flag. The reason I find Mr. Everett's story amusing is that it misses a very HUGE mark based on a number of large assumptions: the biggest one being that any vast majority of people who display that flag do so because they are out to offend someone else. If Mr. Everett ever actually heard of the expression "Heritage, Not Hatred" then he either scoffs at it, or presumes it to just be some nifty catchphrase that white Southern Gen-Xers came up with from early 80s "Dukes of Hazzard" culture. The truth of the matter is a vast majority of those who continue to display the Dixie Cross (battle flag) constitute a very diverse cross-section of Southern identity, some of whom include -- yes, African-Americans. Certainly there remains a large number of people who believe that flag to be a symbol of racism alone (and ironically more of those people tend to be non-people-of-color than the reverse) but there is no consensus on the definitive meaning of the flag itself as a symbol of Southern identity. The biggest irony is, if the scenario of events that happened in Mr. Everett's work actually occurred; a vast majority of white Southern people who honor the idea of "Heritage Not Hatred" would be overjoyed at the acceptance of the Dixie Cross in public display by people of color. Such wide-spread rejection of a wrong-thinking viewpoint that wrongly takes a flag men died under and using it to offend others is something a large majority of us struggle with and have for decades now. The only ones who would lose, and deserve to lose, would be white supremacists and politically correct cultural fascists who continue to divide us as a united Southern people.
@neilcronk
4 жыл бұрын
..."a flag men died under "... What did they die to defend, or support? The main, in fact only practical cause of the Civil War was slavery, and that's what those men died to defend and support, was their, and their states' and regions' right to continue to buy, own, and sell other human beings. That is the Heritage...a heritage of slavery, oppression, and then institutionalized racism to continue and support that oppression when slavery was no longer possible. I'm a Southerner...Mississippi and Texas, parents from N. Carolina and Florida. And I'd love to have a flag or symbol to support the fact that I'd rather be from Texas than from New York City...but that flag's contaminated. Come up with something better...perhaps a flag with a thermometer showing a 100 degrees. S. Carolina's got the palm tree patented, and much of Texas ain't got none, so there's that. Let's come up with something new that says "I'm not a Yankee" in the same way that the Puerto Rican flag I see in cars around here says "I don't eat tacos."
@darthroden
4 жыл бұрын
@@neilcronk Sit down, your drunk Boomer. LOL!
@seanchadwick2879
4 жыл бұрын
'Heritage not hatred' is a ridiculous maxim; the heritage IS hatred. That's literally what's being inherited-the symbol of a violent secession for the rights to make black people less than human-property. Then a CENTURY of Jim Crow. Your rebuttal is laughable.
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