Marlon Brando on Johnny Carson in 1968 and things haven't changed

[japple]

I watched this again today and thought: No, nothing has changed

[elleng]

1. Lovely man,

first time I've seen/heard him personally.

[texasfiddler]

2. When he started talking about polarization

All I could think about is where we are today. It is odd how some things have not changed.

[kacekwl]

3. How after living on this planet

for 63 years have I never seen this ? And we're still pleading for the same thing.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Walter Reuther...

Walter Reuther was president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1946 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the UAW grew to more than 1.5 million members, becoming one of the largest unions in the United States. Reuther was widely admired as the model of a reform-minded, liberal, responsible trade unionist—the leading labor intellectual of his age, a champion of industrial democracy and civil rights who used the collective bargaining process and labor's political influence to advance the cause of social justice for all Americans.

Continues...

https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/walter-reuther

Thank you, apple. Great OP.

[marble falls]

5. Fat Elvis/Skinny Elvis. Fat Marlon/Skinny Marlon. Skinny Marlon was a complex person.

Fat Trump/Skinny Trump - both complete wads.

[smirkymonkey]

6. K&R

Thank you for posting this. I had never seen it before. Marlon Brando was a much deeper person than I had ever thought. I admire his committment toward furthering the work of MLK and in bringing a spotlight upon it.

Yet, it's funny how we find ourselves not all that much further along today. Things have gotten better, slowly. But they are still not where they should be. If nothing else, this Trump era has shown us just how far we need to go and has woken many of us up to the ugliness of institutional racism. We may not have realized just how bad it was before, but we certainly do now. And he is right about action, not words.

We need a government that will commit to uplifting AA communities, but we also need to change people's hearts & minds, and that is a much more difficult task. I don't and never have understood where this hatred comes from, but I suspect that a lot of is born of fear and ignorance. I do hope that we can do better.