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Rise and Shine in the Dogpound
tackle some kind of issue…like a knew what it meant, and my brother,
Words in the mall shooting….or what is consensual fearing the worst, started crying and
begging my parents to intercede and
sex….bullying..etc. Most of it was
Dogpound done in a humorous fashion with make me tell him what it meant. So
after getting a few minutes of nerdy
some dark humor thrown in for good
revenge I told everyone what the word
measure, but they seemed to make
an effort to show several sides of an meant and actually there was nothing
By Walter “JR” Wilson issue or how its impact varied among special about the word. Once my
ello and welcome back to in early 1971, my only reference was individuals. One show did catch my brother got the definition, he quit his
the wonderful world of the from friends and family via telephone eye…the Sunday paper review said crying….but until then the word had
HDogpound. Just recently, I or written letter [Yep…before e-mail. that they were going to approach the total power over him. Words come in
have been watching a television show Yes, I know. I am old. LOL]. They use of the “N” word…and even though many shapes and sizes…some are nice
titled “The Carmichael Show”…this would tell me something that was said I was prepped, I was still taken aback and others are judgmental…like …
is their third season, and just recently on that show, and I would respond, when they did actually use that word you are too fat…you are too stupid…
they were canceled because one of Really?! He actually said that on or a variation of that word throughout you will never amount to anything...
the main characters quit. The show is public television?” Or “He actually the half-hour comedy. Now, I expected and those words and hundreds of more
said to be the black version of the old did that?” Back in those days that a lot of blow back, but I have not seen like them will always be with us and
television hit “All in the Family.” Do was kind of vanguard and it was not any…which is a good thing however around us. So we need to step-up and
remember that show? The one with till the summer reruns was I able to surprising, based on past discussions take the power from the word and
Archie Bunker and his wife Edith catch up with the new number one hit on that specific word. The key point… refuse to allow it to dictate how we
plus good old “Meathead?” LOL. I show. The show ran for nine years that I wanted to get to was that there see ourselves or how we move forward
was in college at the time living on and for five years, in a row it was was a debate on whether that word had in the future. As the old saying goes,
campus, and the only television that the number one show in the Nielsen power over you, or did you have power “God doesn’t make junk.”
was available was in the common ratings…a record that I think still over the word. Interesting question.. As always, be good, do good,
room, and if it was not sports-related, remains today. Anyway, I liked "The and brings me to an incident I had play safe and remember, you have the
heaven help you getting the channel Carmichael Show." Each show would with my little brother. Now, being power. JR
changed. So, when the show started the oldest and him being about four
years younger than me…meant I was
always the target of the “You are the
oldest…you should know better..."
when my brother would tease me;
actually, agitate would be the better
word, because he knew he could do it
and get away with it. Being the oldest
did not give me a lot of opportunities
to return the favor till one night
over supper….my brother was doing
something, and I looked him in the eye
and said, “You are nothing but a Homo
sapien.” Something I picked up from
Biology, and before you go to Google
or ask Siri…this word just means a sub
species of human beings….what we
call ourselves. Anyway, my brother
wanted to know what that meant,
so I just continued to feign interest
and occasionally referred to him as
a Homo sapien as we continued to
eat. No one else at the supper table

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