Re: Times ARE changing

Oh, blast, I was wrong: I thought the author was Angela Banner: just shows you how long those books have sat, untouched, on my shelf. Thank you very much for the correction. Richmond. On 8.06.20 18:32, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Times are hardly changing at all in substance, act

Re: Times ARE changing

Times are hardly changing at all in substance, actually - this is nothing but a superficial change of costumes in society's grand parade of exquisite nonsense. Always a great pretense of love, always plenty of real hate and prejudice. The thugs and their victims do change in every Act of soc

Re: Times ARE changing

Hmmm? Heather Laine Customer Services Manager LiveCode Ltd www.livecode.com > On 7 Jun 2020, at 22:13, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > wrote: > > Cheese ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Times ARE changing

When a tiny boy near the middle of a previous century I secretly hid with a book with words in it. I was not able to puzzle the words, but I could look at the pictures. Believing it to be a fun tale mothers told children in a far off land, I studied the pictures to learn a lesson such mothers mi

Re: Times ARE changing

Well put, good point. On 7.06.20 11:06, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Richmond wrote: > If some of these types who go on endlessly about anything that might > be vaguely construed as 'racist' were capable of slightly more subtle > thought they might examine intentions: after all if we a

Re: Times ARE changing

Richmond wrote: > If some of these types who go on endlessly about anything that might > be vaguely construed as 'racist' were capable of slightly more subtle > thought they might examine intentions: after all if we all judged > people on what they looked like most of us would be out of a job and

Re: Times ARE changing

My best friend (in fact the only friend that has been consistently my friend for 58 years), Rohit Das, who was born in Scotland in the same hospital as me, has Indian parents (and, in fact, he bides in India just now), used to read Little Black Sambo with me, and we used to laugh together. We al

Re: Times ARE changing

Correct. Sorry. > On Jun 6, 2020, at 2:04 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > I don’t think this went whereto meant :) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Times ARE changing

On Jun 6, 2020, at 1:29 PM, PEL via use-livecode wrote: > They pointed out, correctly, that “Little Black Sambo” was Indian, not > African. And it was obvious that most protesters had not “read” the book. I don’t think this went whereto meant :) However, skids, we thought Sambo was cool, a

Times ARE changing

Children, As you all remember, I did a lot of work with a certain nation-wide restaurant chain in the 80s. I ate cherry pancakes at over 300 locations - including the original in Santa Barbara. I knew both “Sam” and “Bo”. Back