THE HOUSE I LIVE IN …. (or, why can’t we all get along?)

Newark was a relatively nice place when we first moved there around 1958. It was clean and it smelled nice. You had a Portuguese section (still there), Pollacks, Dago’s, Irish, Krauts, Russians, and Jews all in close proximity, and getting along just swell. Sure, some of the kids didn’t like me, the nazi Kraut, but that was usually after their parents told them I was evil. Five year old kids, left to themselves, are generally not political and/or racist. We were happy just to get a team together for stick-ball (in the streets), or even for a good game of hide&seek … nationality or color really didn’t cross our young minds. Anyway, the choices of various ethnic foods from all the tiny mom&pop deli’s was simply astounding, and delicious. Not many kids have an amusement park a stone’s throw from their house! It was a nice way to grow up, considering Newark is a big city.

By 1968, all those shops were gone, the blacks rioted and burned down nearby Springfield Avenue, and other areas … and they ruined everything. The lovely ethnic diversity never recovered, as Newark today is a one or two color shithole. Oh, noes … you’re a raayccisss prick! Bite me! That’s exactly what happened. I was there, saw it with my own eyes. To answer my own question, I think I could get along with any group of people, except blacks. They really need their own state. In another thread I proposed we give them New Jersey …. and throw in Connecticut, if necessary.

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Multiculturalism and diversity were once our strengths, according to Frank Sinatra. In 1945, everyone in America basically got along. Below is a 10 minute short film starring Frank Sinatra, “The House I Live In”. It received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe award in 1946. In 2007, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. (Skip the first song, it’s irrelevant, and go to the 2:35 mark.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=woZVlroHqPU

The plot is simple. Sinatra heads outside for a cigarette break during a recording session. He sees a gang of young boys chasing and cornering another kid, getting ready to beat him up. Sinatra intervenes, and asks what the trouble is. They explain that they want to beat the kid up because they don’t like his religion. One tells Sinatra “he’s a dirty -” … but before the kid can say “Jew”, Sinatra cuts him off. Sinatra then has a talk with the boys telling them; — “Look, fellas, religion makes no difference. Except maybe to a Nazi, or somebody that’s stupid.” Sinatra then goes on to explain that we’re all Americans, no matter what we believe, and “prejudice” and “intolerance” are wrong, because even though we all may not see eye to eye on religion, and we’ve got to stick together to fight “the Japs.” The kids then stare wide eyed as Frank breaks into a rendition of the title song.

In the film, Sinatra sings the title song, which eventually became a huge national hit. Below is the song, sung by Paul Robeson. It’s only 3 minute long. Listen to the words. The words present a wonderful imagery; of America as a land of opportunity and “of wealth and beauty”, where people got along and there was “goodness everywhere”, where the people worked hard so there was “enough for all to share.” It seems like the America of my youth. One can understand why this song was, at one time, such a huge hit.

Then again …. hold on a damned minute! The music was written by Earl Robinson, and the lyrics by Abel Meeropol, a couple of years prior in 1943. These two names are quite interesting.

Robinson was later blacklisted during the McCarthy era for being a member of the Communist Party. Ronald Reagan, then head of the Screen Actors Guild, kept in touch with the FBI about “disloyal” Hollywood artists, including Robinson. Robinson was one of the notorious Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for refusing to tell Congress whether or not they had ever been members of the Communist Party. Many years later, Paul Robeson sang the song written by Earl Robinson ……. at the inaugural ceremonies for Ronald Reagan! Sweet irony.

Robinson would go on to write “Ballad For Americans”. Just as in “The House I Live In”, the main theme is that race and religion don’t matter. It was performed at the Communist Party national convention of 1940 …. as well as the GOP convention that year! Strange bedfellows. He also wrote “Black and White”, which celebrated the Brown vs. Board of Education case which is either a victory or travesty of jurisprudence, depending on your worldview. The group Three Dog Night in 1972 recorded a watered down version of Black and White.

Regarding Meeropol, in 1957 he adopted two orphaned boys, , Michael and Robert, after their parents were executed in 1953. Who were the parents? The infamous Commie spies who were executed for giving our atomic secrets to the Soviet Union …. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlQjLse0BA&feature=player_detailpage

Soooo, the guy who wrote the words to the song that inspired the movie, and the guy who wrote the music were both affiliated with Communism. Anyone else? Well, there’s also the guy who wrote the screenplay for the movie. His name was Albert Maltz. And …. surprise, surprise, he also, “was a man on the rise both inside and outside of the Communist Party.”

So, what about the movie? Notice anything unusual about the message? Most Americans today won’t because the message of the movie – “tolerance” and “diversity” is considered mainstream. Everybody loves that! But here’s the $64,000 dollar question; was it mainstream back in 1945?? The answer to that is an unequivocal, “No!”.

Forced racial integration was considered to be a Communist plot. Conservative churches in the era between WWII and the 1970s railed against racial integration. Not one in a thousand preachers would have conducted an interracial marriage. Conservatives and Christians weren’t OK with marching with Dr. King. Even Billy Graham didn’t take a prominent position in the Civil Rights crusade, because he knew it would kill his ministry. America was very segregated back then … and most people liked it that way.

So, who didn’t like segregation? The idea that race and religion were meaningless trivialities was being pushed by four groups; radicals, Jews, libtard politicians, and Communists. The message of the movie isn’t primarily that we shouldn’t go around beating up Jews. Most everyone would agree with that without hesitation.

Rather, the message was that religion and race are meaningless trivialities, and anyone who disagrees is either “a Nazi” or “stupid”. That was THE radical Communist idea in 1945. Now, in 2015, it is the mainstream view embraced by all Democrat and Republican politicians, and their fawning sheep followers. The circle has been completed. Maybe Khrushchev was right after all, about selling us the rope we’d hang ourselves with.

I might actually vote next year if we had a politician with the balls to say, “Segregation was a great idea. Let’s try it again.”. Were that to happen, I could stop being a racist prick.

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