Oh, dear. I had a lot of respect for Alex Haley, but this sounds damning.
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Oh, dear. I had a lot of respect for Alex Haley, but this sounds damning.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
Old old old old news.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 am
Yes, apparently, but not news that I knew, so I put it up on my blog.
Show me the pub for information expiration dates.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
Show me the pub requiring ignorance to be shared…
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Well that was a nonsensical comeback. You are perfectly welcome to leave, you know. I don’t plan to ask you permission on what I want to post.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Chap, don’t you know. RD is the sine non qua of useful/informative/worthwhile information dissemination. Defer to him in all areas of judgement, and you can’t err.
On topic, though, I remember when the “Roots was bollocks” storied hit the print and always thought it was too bad Haley had tried to pass it off as geneology instead of historical fiction, as it was a pretty compelling story in its own right. I see, now, that somes already had presented much of the story as fiction and it just didn’t sell as such. There does, however, seem to be a pattern, especially among the left, of trying to make a dramatic narrative even more relevent and compelling by wrapping it with a personal connection, even if one is not actually present.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Awwwww, Chap. You have a new fwind.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Chap, I certainly did not know about this, either. Thank you for posting such “Old old old old news”.
An obvious question is what was Rubber Ducky’s earlier source for an obviously suppressed tale? Such fraud should not have been hidden from the public, but shared widely and immediately in our land. I smell stench!
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
“Show me the pub requiring ignorance to be shared…”
Uhh…wait a second. Sharing ignorance. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. You can’t share a lack of knowledge with someone else. As soon as you shared the information, the ignorance would be gone because you would no longer be ignorant.
Well, at least on THAT subject…
And Queen Gertrude, (Ducky) – thou doth protest too much, methinks!