PBS National Parks

[RIJIMMY]

ugh, I'm trying not to be some bitter grump,. but Ken Burns does it again. He is such a liberal weenie. I can't tell you as a lifelong jazz fan how awful his Jazz series was.. race, race, race was all it was about and he ignored every white jazz musican except Dave Burbeck. Then I watch his series on WW2, race, race and lets through in some racism for good measure. Ok, well same ole shat. Last night I turn on the National Parks show. I enjoyed 10 minutes of it and then he starts highlighting some Japanase outdoors folk and a painter. Hmm....wonder where this is going Ken? Next thing you know, the sad music and shots of the Japanese internment camps! WTF DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE NATIONAL PARKS!!!!!???? The sacrafice of Japanese citizens was a tradgedy, but so was the sacrifice of MILLIONS of kids overseas never to see their loved ones again, limbs blown off or mentally scarred. Nope, lets highlight the evil america. Then for good measure.....the show concludes with my favorite Ken Burns them....RACISM! Thats right folks, the National Parks and Racism, go figure. Burns tells how the balck opera singer could not sing in an white theatre so she sang at the Lincoln Memorial, which is a National Park, how ever we had to HIGHLIGHT the racism. Get over it Ken, time to move on. Just 60 years ago in the small town in Connecticut my parents grew up in. The wops hated the polocks, who hated the germans.....etc. Welcome to America, they got over it, bought time you did too Ken.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

ugh, I'm trying not to be some bitter grump,. but .

well you sure did a good job

you don't spell well at all when you are fired up



who is Ken Burns?

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

well you sure did a good job

you don't spell well at all when you are fired up

who is Ken Burns?

Hey, I wanna know who in the hell Dave Burbeck is...

[Jenn]

Well I am on episode three so far and still loving it. I have not gotten the racism thing at all. I love the way it was done to tell the history of the parks and not just a "travel Guide" type show. I wanted to finish watching them all before we left but that may not happen....

Went out and got a book of Muirs writings last night which I will read on the plane ......3 days to go!

[spence]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Next thing you know, the sad music and shots of the Japanese internment camps! WTF DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE NATIONAL PARKS!!!!!???? The sacrafice of Japanese citizens was a tradgedy, but so was the sacrifice of MILLIONS of kids overseas never to see their loved ones again, limbs blown off or mentally scarred. Nope, lets highlight the evil america.

Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Then for good measure.....the show concludes with my favorite Ken Burns them....RACISM! Thats right folks, the National Parks and Racism, go figure. Burns tells how the balck opera singer could not sing in an white theatre so she sang at the Lincoln Memorial, which is a National Park, how ever we had to HIGHLIGHT the racism. Get over it Ken, time to move on. Just 60 years ago in the small town in Connecticut my parents grew up in. The wops hated the polocks, who hated the germans.....etc. Welcome to America, they got over it, bought time you did too Ken.

I don't think you're paying attention to the theme of the program, that the National Parks Service has been preserving not just natural wonders, but also monuments to (often negative) events that have shaped American history like Manzanar, the slave trade, Oklahoma City etc...

I find the program to be boring, not liberal.

-spence