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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at L. C. ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL TRIBUTE 1: 1954 YELLOWJACKET YEARBOOK INTRO & "REAR WINDOW"

GOOD MORNING, FAMILY AND FRIENDS,

TODAY, I BEGIN MY TRIBUTE TO MY ALMA MATER, "THE ORIGINAL L.C. ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL",  WITH A STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE TO 1954 BY ADDING A 1954 MOVIE OF MY CHOICE TO MY "1954 TRIBUTES....

SO, PLEASE ENJOY MY  "1954 MOVIE OF THE YEAR" NO. 1 SELECTION...."REAR WINDOW "THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK CLASSIC" STARRING "JAMES STEWART"!!

PLEASE LOOK, LISTEN, LIKE, COMMENT, AND SHARE.....THANKS!!

Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolormystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best^[3] and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and No. 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".  PLOT: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend, Lisa Freemont, and his visiting nurse, Stella, to investigate.

LET'S BEGIN OUR STROLL OF THE "1954 L. C. ANDERSON YELLOW JACKET YEARBOOK

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1. Why they insist on shopping at Rocawear and Sean John and insist Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister are too expensive when they cost virtually the same thing (give or take a few dollars)...?? Is it because they cannot fit into size zero jeans??

2. Why they always shop at the cheapest grocery stores and run people over to Sales, instead of shopping at the moderately-to-higher priced stores? And when they do walk in there, why do they only buy a load of bread??

2b. Why do they insist on eating the 'foods of their ancestors' and insisting its delicious, is it to fit in?! Does every black person have to eat curry chicken, fried dumplings or whatever...because it makes them ALL FAT. Have you SEEN those hips?

3. Why do they insist on getting pregnant before obtaining a high school degree?

4. Why do they have to wear baggy jeans and hats? Wouldn't they look a LITTLE less scary in khakis and a polo? Geez....Look up to Tiger Woods, 'bruthas'.

5. Why they INSIST on speaking slang jibberish, although they are very well aware of proper English grammar and sentence structure.

6. Why there is like NO black teachers. There are a lot of black nurses though, and they rarely smile.

7. Why they don't believe in plastic surgery!? (I love plastic surgery btw.) I mean, c'mon, a nose job or a face lift can fix that grumpy smile or 1800-slave day face. No offense. Just saying.

8. WHy do the women all wear their pants so high up with a tiny belt when they are like hippos?

9. Why do they think they will be Obama once they reach university? Honey, if you still hang around large crowds of Black people and go to clubs that exclusively play reggae and rap, you are still lost.

10. Why they have such horrid staring problems, especially against homosexuals of color (such as myself?) And why they mutter in their jibberish slang to those homosexuals? ......Anybody up for a Holla-Caust?

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My grandma, Eva Rutland www.evarutland.com, has just republished her memoir "When We Were Colored, a Mother's Story." Originally published in 1964, it is a snapshot of what life was like for black people living before the Civil Rights Movement. It tells the story of a woman who was raised in Atlanta, GA before the Second World War. The beloved only girl of a school teacher and a pharmacist, Ms. Rutland was sheltered from many of the harsh racial realities of life in the South. She graduated from Spelman College, a black women's college in Atlanta, GA, in 1937. After World War II, she and her family moved West, where she raised her children during the early days of integration. She originally wrote the book because she worried about the newly integrated world that her children were entering. She wrote this book with white mothers in mind. She wanted them to realize that her children were just as precious and just as fragile as their children and to be nice to them.

Almost 50 years later, this book still has resonance today. It is not the story of lynchings and sit-ins. It's the story of being the first black man in a prominent position in a previously all white workplace, the first black family in a previously all-white neighborhood or the first black child in an all-white classro0m. It is a story that any mother or person whose had a mother can relate to and I strongly encourage you all to read it. 

Eva Rutland is now 90-years-old, blind but continues to write. She has published over 20 novels and is currently working on a sequel tentatively entitled "Tales of a Negro Grandma."

Please read the book (you can request it from your local library or order it online) and comment on it. Grandma loves to hear from her fans.

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Hi, Folks.

I've always felt black in my heart, since I read the literature as a little girl. I feel as an intruder was, when I know what the sisters have written better than the brothers of this community might. I am not proud in any other way than one ought to be proud of what she is, but I will never be other than what I am, so I might as well feel proud when it would lift me up.

But I am humbled, HUMBLED, at being white as any ghost or whiter, and still allowed, by virtue of all my differences, and through my shame, to suffer with you, my people.

*weeps for joy*

Wow. This community sure has lost all its action! What with the Kevon (our mod!), the entrepeneur he is, busy screeprinting his Kill Whitey t-shirts ($22.50 - order yours today at killwhiteydesigns.org - American Apparel brand only!!! Made in the USA), it's no wonder there haven't been many posts.

( Cut for colourful language & general asshattery.Collapse )

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Alright...I was looking around on this community and found it...needless to say, interesting. I do not wish to attack anyone because I feel we all go our own path and have our own feelings and thoughts that need to be expressed.

I read a few things put up that was talking about how a post was racist when...it really wasn't since the person wasn't attacking a race or yelling out obsencities and yes I have actually seen racism in my life, but not by African-Americans. (I will try to be politically correct for I do not wish to tred on thin ice.)

I also read a post by an African-American saying that no white man or woman will ever know what it is like to be black and you know what..I would agree full heartedly with them. As they will never know how it is to be a white man or woman and no not all white people are rich.

In my opinion a person's color should have NO baring on who they are. I am a mutt of sorts. Being Italian, Sicilian (Sicilians and Italians are NOT the same), German and Portugese. My mom used to be ridiculed and harrassed for being Italian and my dad and his mom used to be attacked for being German (the whole Nazi thing.) Even today I hear a few comments against Germans, towards the ones I love and care about the most. My friend who is also a mix of German and Italian used to get in a lot of fights because he was German and no one would want to talk to him because of this, my bf has also come across some ignorant racists and I have been attacked by my own mother for not being full Italian.

My point is that everyone will go through a time of harrassment and racism, but the trick is to forget the ignorance and take pride in what you really are and hold onto that.

I am very proud to be the mix that I am for if I wasn't I would be a very different person. Now remember I am not attacking anyone because everyone has their views and I just hope everyone just sits back and really thinks about who they are.

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What exactly is "black by choice"?