Author Topic: Other Sports  (Read 124759 times)

CurtOne

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Re: Other Sports
« Reply #3210 on: June 25, 2020, 01:13:14 pm »
Growing up in California in a multiracial neighborhood where I was peppered in the 50's and 60's by tv Westerns, I associated nooses with cattle rustlers and mobs eager for vengeance on gunslingers.   There were Westerns on up to 3 and 4 every night.  Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, Wanted Dead or Alive, Have Gun Will Travel, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Johnny Yuma, Rawhide, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, plus the whole stable of Warner Brothers: Cheyenne, Maverick, Sugarfoot, and some I've forgotten.   Along with this, we had old Gene Autry and Roy Rogers movies, not to mention John Wayne and the spaghetti Westerns.   I lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska before coming to Illinois.  I was in my 40's before associating nooses and lynching with African Americans.  Like I said, you lynched horse thieves and cattle rustlers and murderers not Black people.  It was a rude awakening and a really sad time in our history.