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LessAspin

(1,407 posts)
6. "Martin Luther Skiing Day" and "Lemons"
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 10:53 AM
Jan 2020

Speaking of tackling tough subjects. I just recently caught 2 episodes that exemplify that.

The first was "Martin Luther Skiing Day" .. First it was funny as heck but also informative. I was not aware that the speaker system was sabotaged just prior to the .. 'I Have a Dream' speech. RFK enlisted the Army Corps of Engineers to get it up and running.

They didn't mention this but I have since read that one possible reason that the Attorney General used them instead of members of his own Justice Department to fix it was a suspicion that J Edgar was behind the sabotage. Which brings us to the second episode I just recently saw.

"Lemons" was an episode of blackish dealing with the election of Trump. They really did a great job of showing how the characters were struggling to come to grips with it. The thing is now, as bad as they imagined it might be, it's turned out even worse.

Going back to RFK being undermined by J Edgar and the FBI. Now we have Bill Barr flipping that on it's head and undermining his own Justice Department. Likewise you have Trump going around his own Intelligence experts using Rudy Guiliani to investigate Crowdstrike. It was inconceivable at the time to think it would get this bad.



lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. Do you know who she is ? Have you ever seen her sing? Broadway, Bette Miller, film Quite a life!
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 11:11 AM
Oct 2018

In case anyone does not
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Lewis

In one episode she reveals to Rainbow her past and it draws from her actual life on stage
Great watching the kids grow up on the series too Yara Shahidi has a spinoff now- Growish

Still singing !

https://m.

a kennedy

(32,069 posts)
4. Did not know that, knew she's been around, and I don't mean that in a bad way....
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 11:50 AM
Oct 2018

very established actor......thanks for posting this. I just love her.

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