![]() ![]() But waking up then speaking up, then talking with each other may be the right thing to do. I say we should amp down the volume of the awoken long enough to hear each other out, with due respect to our own and other’s tribalisms. Which of course leaves it to you and me to figure out what to do. Īnd as much as I hate to say it, Disney’s plan to rename the ride “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” after its first black princess feels more commercially craven than culturally woke. For on Thursday the Florida governor called on the GOP to bring in “new blood” by replacing RNC chair and Trump superfan Ronna McDaniel, a Mormon Minnesota mom of two with Harmeet Dhillon, an Indian American Punjab so proud of his Chandigarian roots that he’s taken the Twitter handle to Splash Mountain, it was a flume ride without any noticeable references to its thin derivation from “Song of the South.” Yes, a film by that name implicitly sympathized with Uncle Remus slaveholders when it was released…. But a closer look suggests that DeSantis himself is bedeviled with doubt. Sure, DeSantis’s opposition to the AP course might be inconsistent with his praise of AP courses about European or Asian history. Rushing to superficial, self-effacing, maybe even self-loathing judgments, however, is a mistake. What’s more, we may also have been racist until Sunday, when Disneyworld shut down Splash Mountain a flume ride that alluded to a 1946 musical that won an Oscar for its “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” song. racism) when he stopped Florida educators from accrediting an AP African-American Studies course. We are racist, some will contend e.g., the staffers at USA Today who on Thursday said probable Trump Presidential challenger Ron DeSantis “revealed his true colors” (i.e. Still, while it’s sinful to judge others, we’ve become far too fearful of talking about who “we” are and especially what “we” should do. To speculate any further, though, would be feckless, maybe even racist. The killings, we’re told, might have had something to do with Chinese celestial cosmology-specifically the Moon’s movement at the time from shadow to light. exurb, or of 66-year-old Chunli Zhao before he killed seven other Asian Americans in Half Moon Bay just south of San Francisco. I was extremely young, too young to go on most of the rides.Most of us strive to be “woke,” but given the gravity of murderous events this week, isn’t it time to ask “Just what have we awoken to?”Ī Tennessee court’s decision Tuesday to charge five former Memphis police officers, all African-Americans, for killing a 29-year-old black dad despite his passivity during a traffic stop may seem familiar enough, a product perhaps of what Michelle Obama in “Becoming” (2018) called a “feeling of outrage and helplessness” that “nurtures” the kind of black-on-black violence she witnessed as a girl in Chicago’s South Side.īut it’s impossible to comprehend what was in the mind of 72-year-old Huu Can Tran before he shot down 11 Asian-Americans at a dance studio in an L.A. It was a cold autumn day, freezing in fact, and my mum (who used to absolutely love theme parks before she was wheelchair bound and in her 70s, bless her ) had hired a minibus to take the family, and friends, to Blackpool illuminations. We had spent most of the day in the newly opened Sand Castles water park. From inside there you could see a log flume. Long, usually V-shaped troughs filled with water would carry. I'm a bit hazy though, so I'm not sure if it was one at the Pleasure Beach, or a small one on or near the pier. The first commercial log flumes were built in the mid-1800s by sawmills that used them to transport logs across long distances. But I remember thinking all day that it looked too high, and was terrifying. I just wanted to stay in the wave pool all day.Īnyway, others, including my mum, couldn't wait to get to the Pleasure Beach, for some early evening and late night fun. I remember the wind being so strong on the walk to the park that me and some of the other youngsters were using our coats behind our heads as parachutes. Once we got to the park it was still so cold and windy. ![]() We spent most of the time doing indoor rides. The first ride I remember riding was River Caves. ![]() I know this, because I remember being terrified when somebody told me that it was 'like the log flume and had a drop at the end.' So I don't remember much of the indoor bit, as I spent most of it worrying about when the drop was going to come. But I do remember actually really enjoying the drop once it came to it. I also remember really enjoying the Alice in Wonderland ride on the same trip. As well as another indoor ride, that I thought was a coaster, but apparently it wasn't. ![]()
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