Yes, indeed. And it's 2025 and Mississippi still leads the way on the desire to turn back the clock. 🧾 When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970) | Open Culture share.google/9r2y85vIjiSZ...
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Didn’t some stations drop Family Feud because Richard Dawson kissed black women?
jul 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 7 0 • view
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jul 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
This is why those "Never Trump" republicans are disingenuous. They decry what their party has become but fail to admit where the GOP always was. They did not shout it down when they saw it. They played a role in it's proliferation today. They're shocked, I say, shocked. s/
jul 29, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
It's the worst crime imaginable: giving white folk the vapors.
jul 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm a lifelong Texan. I remember the controversy over this awesome show (Although I am more of a Mr Rogers girl 🥰). I also remember people expressing alarm and hatred about "Villa Alegre". I loved that show, I'm always hoping to find it on DVD or something.
jul 29, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Not to mention people weren’t exactly happy when Mr Rogers was soaking his feet in a kiddie pool & shared it with the postman, who was Black.
jul 29, 2025, 2:55 am • 24 0 • view
When I was a kid, people made jokes about how he must be gay and a wimp because he was so nice and understanding. They thought he was unmanly.
jul 29, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
More than that. He washed the Black postman’s feet.
jul 29, 2025, 8:14 pm • 3 0 • view
What???
jul 29, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
More about this is here, if you're interested... www.biography.com/actors/miste...
jul 29, 2025, 2:33 pm • 3 1 • view
Yeah, misremembered and confused the officer with the postman. But still got the main part of it correct. :)
jul 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep, you got the most important parts correct :-)
jul 29, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks
jul 29, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Still the dumbest state?
jul 29, 2025, 2:46 am • 3 0 • view
jul 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 16 0 • view
This is the same idiotic state that didn’t know slavery had ended until Lincoln (2012) was shown in theaters. So this doesn’t surprise me at all
jul 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 2 0 • view
All the calamity is disturbing 😳….
jul 29, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
I remember being a kid in Tennessee in the 70s and they banned certain episodes of Soap. Fundie evangelical theocrats can't stand anything that threatens their agenda.
jul 29, 2025, 5:22 am • 5 0 • view
I remember that! Even my arch- conservative parents didn't care if I watched Soap.
jul 29, 2025, 12:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Soap was canceled because people complained it was too raunchy. It was getting good ratings. No way would a show ever get canceled today that was getting good ratings just because people were complaining it was too raunchy.
jul 30, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
The so-called Moral Majority basically bullied Soap off the air.
jul 29, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
this reminds me of the story Charles Schulz tells about the Peanuts character Franklin and how Southern editors tried to threaten him/punish him for including a Black kid joining Charlie Brown's classroom. the concept of integration was THAT explosive to them that comic strips were subversive.
jul 29, 2025, 1:44 pm • 10 0 • view
😢
jul 29, 2025, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view