EDIT: On January 14, 1963, the day of George Wallace's infamous "segregation now, segregation forever" speech, CBS aired an episode of the Twilight Zone called He's Alive. It starred a young Dennis Hopper as a small, struggling Nazi-esque group. If you've never seen an episode of the Rod Serling era Twilight Zone then this is a good one to watch. While it was one of the season that broke the half hour format (that season's episodes were an hour each) it's one of the best in my opinion and eerily prescient given the kind of language we're seeing in modern punditry on from certain sectors of the political spectrum. (Most are conservatives, but there are a few, not many but a few, very nasty liberals as well. I'm not making an equivalence between the two parties as a whole mind you. Please don't jump at me over this. :( I'm only saying that we have to confront the bad in all of our midst because it can ruin us all and I hate nastiness from anyone.) really trying to not be too apologetic too lol it's something i'm working on still
Here's the link to the episode: http://www.youtube.com/...
Anyway I think this is an important one to see for context as to what's going on. Rod Serling was one of the voices of liberalism in the past. He was for the civil rights movement, he was against racism in all its forms and was an anti-war activist which is all the more moving given that he actually had served in the military so he knew what war was like first hand. His wife quoted him saying: "the ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic." I think that speaks volumes for his character.
What's also obvious in his writing is that Serling respected the little people. The people who society said didn't matter (a good one for this is The Obsolete Man btw). He cared about humanity and didn't want to see us sink into a state of perpetual hate and war, and this was at a time when the kinds of stories Serling was telling weren't what you'd expect to see on television. True he did run some standard sci-fi and some horror type stories, but the morality plays are what I remember best and those usually spoke to some issue Serling cared a great deal about.
The language Denis Hopper's character uses in He's Alive is eerily similar to what we see coming from certain pundits and politicians (minus the outright mentioning of the white race by name). I bring this up because we have to look to the past and pay attention to what people were saying then and especially the closing narration of that episode.
I'll put the closing narration quote behind the cut so anyone who doesn't want to see it doesn't have to. I'll also put a big warning just after I finish this post and sign off so people know it's a semi-kinda-spoiler of sorts. (just being careful people can be funny about these things :) )
Again please check the episode out and see for yourselves what I'm talking about. I really don't believe in coincidence and I don't think it's happenstance that I stumbled on that episode and the audio from it that I heard today.
EDIT 2: thanks to oneleftcoast for reminding me about the George Wallace speech. I was trying to be subtle about it by just mentioning the date, but I'm not sure everyone knows the exact date of it. so based on their comment I put in the reference while keeping the date since I thought both were important.
That's all for now
May God bless you all
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SPOILER ALERT: BEHIND THE CUT IS A QUOTE OF THE CLOSING NARRATION OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE HE'S ALIVE. IF YOU'D RATHER WATCH THE EPISODE FOR THE CONTEXT PLEASE DO SO.