Marching the Way Victorious

Identity Crisis

by Derek Taylor September 24, 2022

I was the opposite, because I picked the wrong time to have an identity crisis.

Posted in #AmericanHigh, #AmericanHighSchool, #Blackface, #blackstudents, #confessions, #faith, #happiness, #innerpeace, #LouisArmstrong, #MInstrel Shows, #Music, #Sex, #Trumpetplayer, #UCD, #UCDavis, Entertainment

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That's Entertainment

by Derek Taylor February 26, 2021

The closer you are to someone the more likely you are to laugh with them and not at them. When someone is telling jokes about another race or religion and there are no people from that race or religion in the room with them, then they are more likely laughing at them than with them.

Posted in #AlJolson, #AmericanHigh, #AmericanHighSchool, #Americans, #Blackface, #blackstudents, #Christianity, #Christmas, #ChristmasGifts, #Jews, #Judaism, #LouisArmstrong, #MInstrel Shows, #Music, #pizza, #Trumpetplayer, #wrestling, Foodie

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Skin is Deep!

by Derek Taylor September 28, 2019

Just as when I commented on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the State Attorney General Mark Herring’s use of black face, I must preference my remarks by first confessing that I appeared in blackface in my high school yearbook.

Posted in #AllInTheFamily, #AmericanHighSchool, #ArchieBunker, #Blackface, #MInstrel Shows, #MissouriCompromise