Comments on: Ken Burns, You’re Better Than That! http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/ Rory O'Connor's blog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: vince romano http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66309 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:44:18 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66309 "...and not one voice cried, "shame." Not one latino voice that now mouths their indignation in a shared political agenda under the pretense of moral indignation. . “…and not one voice cried, “shame.” Not one latino voice that now mouths their indignation in a shared political agenda under the pretense of moral indignation. .

]]> by: vince romano http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66308 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:39:56 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66308 Correctionsof the above: More importnt than how u get 500,000 servicemen out of 1.4% of 140million Americans is the paradox of John Basilone, Italian-American, and Alistair Cooke's nationally televised TV program aired just 3 decades after wwII. Basilone was the only enlisted man to be awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross, the two highest awards for bravery. Fast forward 3 decades and you have Alistair Cooke on national TV’s, America: The Immigrant, pulling the name of Alphonse Capone from the immigration files in Washington D.C. as being representative of the contributions made by Italian Americans. Ken Burns never reported how Mrs Basilone and the other mothers of those Italian American who lost their lives, eyesight and limbs felt about that revelation made on national TV to the American people. “They have no prosthetic for that, you know.” www.taylorstreet archives. Correctionsof the above:

More importnt than how u get 500,000 servicemen out of 1.4% of 140million Americans is the paradox of John Basilone, Italian-American, and Alistair Cooke’s nationally televised TV program aired just 3 decades after wwII. Basilone was the only enlisted man to be awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross, the two highest awards for bravery. Fast forward 3 decades and you have Alistair Cooke on national TV’s, America: The Immigrant, pulling the name of Alphonse Capone from the immigration files in Washington D.C. as being representative of the contributions made by Italian Americans. Ken Burns never reported how Mrs Basilone and the other mothers of those Italian American who lost their lives, eyesight and limbs felt about that revelation made on national TV to the American people. “They have no prosthetic for that, you know.” www.taylorstreet archives.

]]> by: j http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66188 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:09:36 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66188 In my previous post I left out what the 1.4 represents. That is 1.4 PERCENT. In my previous post I left out what the 1.4 represents. That is 1.4 PERCENT.

]]> by: j http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66187 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:04:53 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-66187 Hispanics made up 1.4 of the population in the 1940 census records. In those numbers, they weren't even a blip on our national radar. Their angst about not being acknowledged apart from being Americans illustrates that they don't want to be seen as simply Americans. I'm Scots - Irish. My family has fought in every American War since the revolution. Scots-Irish have always served in percentages far greater than their percentage of the American population. As a people, they were poor and had little political influence. They made up a HUGE majority of the Revolutionary rebels. They had an ancestral hatred of the English. You don't see me or my family trying to get recognition apart from the American mainstream. We assimililated UPON ARRIVAL. Hispanics made up 1.4 of the population in the 1940 census records. In those numbers, they weren’t even a blip on our national radar.

Their angst about not being acknowledged apart from being Americans illustrates that they don’t want to be seen as simply Americans.

I’m Scots - Irish. My family has fought in every American War since the revolution. Scots-Irish have always served in percentages far greater than their percentage of the American population. As a people, they were poor and had little political influence. They made up a HUGE majority of the Revolutionary rebels. They had an ancestral hatred of the English.

You don’t see me or my family trying to get recognition apart from the American mainstream. We assimililated UPON ARRIVAL.

]]> by: Chris Melito http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-64561 Fri, 11 May 2007 18:22:17 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/04/02/ken-burns-you%e2%80%99re-better-than-that/#comment-64561 I cannot speak for the Jazz documentary or any other work produced by Mr. Burns, however I can officially tell you that not only does Roberto Clemente indeed appear in the Baseball documentary, but so do other players of Latino or similar descent. I've actually just finished watching it and clearly remember a rather poignant moment in the "8th Inning" where the documentary speaks of Clemente, his arguments with the Pittsburgh media that insisted on calling him "Bobby," and his death off the coast of Isla Verde on New Year's Eve Day, 1972. Burns also mentions a number of Cuban players, Juan Marichal, and many others. I'm not making a moral or ethical statement, I'm just stating fact. I cannot speak for the Jazz documentary or any other work produced by Mr. Burns, however I can officially tell you that not only does Roberto Clemente indeed appear in the Baseball documentary, but so do other players of Latino or similar descent. I’ve actually just finished watching it and clearly remember a rather poignant moment in the “8th Inning” where the documentary speaks of Clemente, his arguments with the Pittsburgh media that insisted on calling him “Bobby,” and his death off the coast of Isla Verde on New Year’s Eve Day, 1972. Burns also mentions a number of Cuban players, Juan Marichal, and many others.

I’m not making a moral or ethical statement, I’m just stating fact.

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