MORE RAMBLINGS

JUST WONDERING:

HOW DID ALL OF THOSE LONELY RUSSIAN WOMEN GET MY EMAIL ADDRESS?

LOT'S OF QUESTIONS FOR THIS OLD OCTOGENARIAN TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF TODAY'S MORES.

WHAT IS THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (IN YEARS) FOR OUR FOOLISH JUVENILE
BEHAVIOR?  (OR, DOES WEARING BLACK FACE HAVE NONE?)

A CONFESSION: I  ONCE PARTICIPATED IN A MINSTREL SHOW.

NOW, I DIDN'T WEAR BLACK FACE ONLY BECAUSE I WAS MR. INTERLOCUTER- THE SINGING WHITE MASTER OF CEREMONIES FOR THE REST OF THE WHITE CUB SCOUTS WHO DID WEAR BLACKFACE. THIS LATTER CHOICE WAS OBVIOUSLY DUE TO THE  INSISTANCE OF OUR BIGOTTED WHITE DEN MOTHER MRS. BASH.

(SHE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR HER ACTIONS  - WHICH I THOUGHT AT THE TIME WAS VERY WHITE OF HER)

WILL MY MOURNFUL CHILD SOPRANO RENDITION OF THE SONG "CHLOE" COME BACK TO HAUNT ME?

IS CHIEF WAHOO ROLLING AROUND IN HIS GRAVE NOW THAT HIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SOCIALLY BANNED? SEEMS LIKE A CRUDE TRICK TO DO TO SOMEONE WHO WARMED MY HEART AS A CHILD POURING OVER THE OLD STEVE ROPER COMIC STRIP WHERE THE TWO INTERACTED - UNAWARE OF THEIR BOORISH BEHAVIOR.

 DID THE LONE RANGER REALLY SEND TONTO INTO TOWN TO GATHER NEEDED INFORMATION DESPITE HIS KNOWLEDGE THAT MEANT TONTO WOULD SURELY GET BEAT UP BY THE TOWN FOLKS?

WHY  DID HE  REFUSES TO TAKE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND GREET THE LOCALS? WAS IT DUE TO HIS AWARENESS OF POSSIBLY EXPOSING HIMSELF TO THE IDENTICAL FATE?

ACCORDING TO BILL COSBY THAT BEHAVIOR CONTINUED UNTIL TONTO FINALLY  SAID "ENOUGH - KEMO SABE!" - FORCING "KEMO" TO ADOPT THE OLD PROSPECTOR DISGUISE AND DO THE DIRTY DEED HIMSELF.

AND WHO IS GOING TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE COSBY?

(AND, OF COURSE, I ASSUME THAT MEANS  I AM ALSO A BIGOT.)

WELL, SO MUCH FOR TONTO SAVING THE RANGERS LIFE AS THE SOLE SURVIVOR AFTER THE AMBUSH BY THE EVIL BUTCH CAVENDISH GANG. TALK ABOUT A LACK OF WHITE MAN'S GRATITUDE..

AND WHY DID "LONE"' GET TO RIDE A BEAUTIFUL WHITE STALLION WHILE TONTO WAS STUCK WITH SOME MIXED BREED CALLED "PAINT?

WASN'T THAT ENOUGH TO CAUSE US TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF CREATOR FRAN STRYKER'S TRUE HIDDEN BIAS?.

MAKES YOU WONDER. RATHER THAN CHASING WHITE WOMEN - DID THE DUO SIT ALONE AROUND THE CAMPFIRE AT NIGHT DISCUSSING THE CURRENT STATUS OF RACIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE OLD WEST - OR PLAYING  A VERSION OF "OLD MAID"
FOR STAKES OF SILVER BULLETS?

WHILE I MIGHT ALSO QUESTION THE DATING HABITS OF THE TWO  -THAT OPENS ANOTHER WHOLE BAG OF INSENSITIVITY. SO LET'S GO ON.

WERE GENERAL CUSTER AND HIS TROOPS MASSACRED SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS PERCEIVED BY THE "INJUNS" TO BE A DETESTED BIGOT?

WERE THE OWNERS OF THE SPORT TEAMS IN CHICAGO, CLEVELAND  ATLANTA, WASHINGTON DC , BOSTON, ETC CLEVERLY HIDING THEIR RACIAL BIAS BY NAMING THEIR OFTEN DEFICIENT MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS TEAMS AFTER OUR NATIVE AMERICANS?

WILL WE NOW BE P.C SENSITIVE  BY NO LONGER CONTINUING TO REFER TO ALL THOSE SECOND SALE TICKET FOLKS OUT THERE AS "SCALPERS".  

AND AFTER LISTENING AT THE FOOT OF OUR HUGE PHILCO FLOOR RADIO, EAGERLY ANTICIPATING EACH ADVENTURE WITH A MIX OF CHILDISH ENTHUSIASM AND CURIOSITY  - WAS I RIGHT TO WONDER WHY NEITHER OF MY HEROS EVER HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM?

SHOULD WE EXHUME MY FIRST GRADE TEACHER MISS DUERR FROM HER GRAVE BECAUSE ONE OF THE  PREFERRED READING CHOICES AT ATLANTIC AVENUE ELEMENTARY WAS THE STORY OF "LITTLE BLACK SAMBO" (REPLETE WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DRAWINGS THAT INCLUDED A VAT OF BUTTER?)

WHAT DID AMOS, ANDY, AND THE KINGFISH REALLY THINK ABOUT AL JOLSON?

ALAS, SO MANY QUESTIONS - SO LITTLE TIME.

(the use of all caps was for the purpose of emphasizing the gravity of the subject matter.)