@J-Jericho said in Regarding Racism:

I asked them if they liked watermelon. "Yeah." and "Of course!" were their replies. I then said: "Then you must be N*****s!"...... Deer-in-the-headlights stares from both of them.

A funny thing - One night, the NCO Club announced it was going to have a "soul food" night. I and some of my band mates went, thinking we were cool and getting into the "soul" culture. The place was packed, BTW, mainly with African-Americans.

Imagine our surprise when it turned out to be food that was second-nature to me. Nothing exotic at all. As a matter of fact, it was the same thing I ate in Texas when I was a student and didn't have any money.

"I just posted this excerpt from "A Timeline of Trumpets", pages 181-182 on TH in reply to a question about a Citation, and it occurred to me it was a good fit for this new section. (Before someone objects, I'm the author. When I republish it it doesn't count as plagiarism!)"

I watch The Daily Pigin Show by Island comic Andy Bumatai. He always says, after giving a piece of information, "But don't quote me. I might be wrong." LOL

George, you do realise, don't you, that a mobile is an emergency device, as well? If you have a traffic accident or a health emergency, help is only inches away. If you have to rely on a conventional phone, you just might lose your life.

@djeffers78 said in Regarding Racism:
We always used wasted as a really powerful sucker punch. Kinda like “laid him out”

This.

@djeffers78 said in Regarding Racism:
I was one of 7 white kids in an all black junior high. Learned quite a bit about racism in those years.

I grew up in the minority. First in Japan, then in Hawai'i. My graduating H.S. class had 774 students but there were only 9 Haoles (Caucasians) in it. I took my licks but it was predominately free of prejudice.

I have to give kudos to my Asian friends. My H.S. was overwhelmingly Asian-American but my Jr. H.S. wasn't. A different racial mix and there were more problems. And, even though it wasn't significant, most of my racial problems were with certain ethnic groups and zero from others. I want to add, though, that my best friend a a 9th grader was Samoan and in my 10th grade, Filipino.

But I would also point out that I don't think these problems were so much driven by racial divisions, per se, as by economics, real or perceived. The only problems I had were from those on the lower economic backgrounds and very little from the more (relatively) affluent.

I experienced reverse racism at the end of the 60s when I was playing in a soul band of mixed races. I remember one night (and that wasn't the only one), when I came off the stage on my way to the green room and bumped right into a chest. I looked up and this really big black man was looking down on me and said, "Hey, trumpet man. I'm going to listen to every note that comes out of the end of your ******* horn and if it ain't great, I'm gonna kick your ass".

Well, as luck would have it, the first tune after the break featured me on an ad lib solo. I looked out in the crowd and I could see this guy, several heads above everyone else's shoulder, staring at me. I thought, "This better be good", and closed my eyes and let her rip. When I finished my solo, I opened my eyes and the guy was gone.

Most of my problems came when racial problems were really heightened but once I played, the guys left me alone.

But you still weren't safe. One night, after a gig, somebody reached through the car window and wasted our sax player for no other reason that he was white.

Except for that time period I never had any other problems.

@Dr-GO said in The New Reality:
What about the classic tin cans connected by metal wire?

That's too modern. We used string.

@GeorgeB said in The New Reality:
I'm a dinosaur, Steve. I threw my cell phone in the garbage when I retired 20 years ago..and with good reason. Today I only own and use a basic desktop computer.

And what then, a land-line phone?

Does anybody know the price of a new BAC Benge?

I don't like BAC's hidden price policy where I have to give them a bunch of personal info that they can use to spam me with, before they give me the price. Thanks,

As an aside, has anyone played one of these?

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

I was taking a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo to Wash. D.C. and got upgraded to first class because I was wearing a uniform. They served me a multi-course traditional Japanese banquet-meal that was to die for.

But you didn’t. And wouldn’t. Would you?
If you died for it, how would you eat it?

I think I've already done that.