Old Time Radio Can Be Embarrassing 0
Embarrassing because it mirrors the way we were.
I was listening to an episode of The Man Called X here (just to be clear, the show was before my time–not much before my time, but still before my time).
The episode is set in the Congo (called the “Belgian Congo” when I was young, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The “native miners” are not showing up for work (turns out that the “native miners” are being duped by duplicitous white men, because, being natives who are Not White, they are incapable of thinking for themselves) and Ken Thurston, “the Man Called X,” delivers this line:
“No matter how much you offered them in trinkets and money, they wouldn’t come back?”
Trinkets and money.
It is not a very flattering mirror, is it?
