Today I learned about formerly independent WOR-TV in New York and how they used to run classics as part of their Million Dollar Movie thing. Sometimes they would just repeat greats like King Kong or Moby Dick. Back to back to back, all day, all week even. Sometimes they'd show Son of Kong right after original Kong, and many today believe they are one big film as Son picks up exactly where Kong ends. Lordy, that's tv: just run them greats, right on.
In the land of NOT right on, I learned there exists today a school named after Ku Klux Klan founder and Confederate horseman, Nathan Bedford Forrest. I am still stunned. Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida. How can this be? How in the world has this been allowed to continue? Do they have murals of him in their halls? Is their mascot the Fighting Knights? Good grief. Ok, so they're the Rebels - it still has no place in a living school. I had looked into it, just wondering if there were any such honorings, like from 50 years ago! Had no idea no one's had the moral balls to change its name. Unbelievable but true. Good ol' Florida.
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