Note to All Antique Phonograph Society Members

[phonogfp]

I'm waiting for a small package that was mailed from Sacramento USPS First Class Mail on March 28. April 6 and it's not here in New York State yet...

George P.

[Lucius1958]

I'm waiting for a small package that was mailed from Sacramento USPS First Class Mail on March 28. April 6 and it's not here in New York State yet...

George P.

Hope you have a tracking number...

Bill

[m_nakamura]

Wow, this post started out as a notice about the slow post office delivery of the APS newsletter and really morphed into something else! I was there and saw the Al Jolson movie, but wasn't shocked or offended. I'm old enough to know that blackface was a common tradition of minstrelsy and it's Al Jolson in the 20s. Not something to be shocked about. If a live entertainer was hired and came out in blackface, that would be a little different. Although since some were shocked, maybe a disclaimer would be good, if this kind of video is shown again. I've seen auctions where KKK records are auctioned off with no disclaimer or apology. That kind of shocks me more as I don't think Al Jolson was racist.

Jolson was not a racist. He dined with blacks and would hire black actors for films when a lot of firms did not.

I'm a bit confused reading through this? Did the APS show some movie and people had racist reactions or was the movie racist I'm too sleepy to tell.