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'The New Sunday School Teacher'


Whatever happened to the "Boy"? in this Season 4, Episode 21 from 1961 that was on COZI-TV tonight (Wed., March 26th '14 @ from 6-:30 p.m.) of another "Boy", Negro, or black man, my grandmother used to say "the colored", by the same name of "Andy Kirk" but not the actor, but the Jazz musician, 1898-1992 was Andy Kirk and his "Twelve Clouds of Joy". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kirk_(musician) and http://redhotjazz.com/cloudsofjoy.html for their pictures as "The Dark Clouds" name before that. Their "Dunkin' A Doughnut" tune of 2:49-minutes heard 2,133 times is over at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iWvIPUup4Y Of maybe Walter Brennan would have liked this tune?(;-) and that they ought to play this at "Dunkin' Donuts".

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In other words there were two Andy Kirks: (1) the one actor who played The "Boy" last night to address unknown and; (2) the Negro band leader, of some called them "Darkies" and hence the first "Dark Cloud" Group name, of since changed to not their color but number for their name.

Plus on a James Burke-like "Connections" of another "Black Cloud" was hovering over the water turned to ice one summer as performed by Passaconaway, the Indian Chief here in New Hampshire, in his "magic" trick of he too must have been a chemist, of some ice harvest one Winter to a sawdust pile in some cave until put to use. But back to the story rather than down this tangent or "rabbit hole" (:-) of:

This "Boy" being a derogatory word for the politically correct of today calling Negros or blacks: "Afro-Americans" and saying that "Happy Kwanzaa" every Christmas-time, of I thought it would be nice to play such tunes from their band in the background at the local "Dunkin' Donuts" shops, of then when people say how nice they sound, the Manager could put up an history photo of the group and any modern-day racist* can be surprised.

* that some here claim Walter Brennan to have been, of him not here to defend himself, nor have I read of WHERE on the internet** this is confirmed in writing other than mere allegation of speculation.

** I just found this one over at: http://forums.tcm.com/message.jspa?messageID=8516744 where he made some comment about the riots, and another web-page to go to at: http://www.answers.com/topic/walter-brennan later; ____ of: "Eugene Pallette,rotund, frog-voiced character actor was. He refused to sit at the same table with a Black actor during a scene. "

*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Pallette 1889-1954 "Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn " He was born in Kansas; and: "He worked with D.W. Griffith on such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916)." of the first about some Negro who raped a white girl. & " In 1946, convinced that there was going to be a "world blow-up" by atom bombs, Pallette received considerable publicity when he set up a "mountain fortress" on a 3,500-acre (14 km2) ranch near Imnaha, Oregon, as a hideaway from universal catastrophe. The "fortress" reportedly was stocked with a sizable herd of prize cattle, enormous supplies of food, and had its own canning plant and lumber mill. " So WHO-ever does that "Doomsday Preppers" TV show might like to do an episode on a visit to there of like for a before and after picture. ____

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"Boy" is used all over the U.S…. not only to refer to black youth. I heard it growing up in NYC; I heard it on tv when talking to anyone younger than the speaker… and it's a universal 'thing' … so I don't regard the term as non pc or as derogatory.

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