I never had much opinion on "Hamiliton" one way or another, but the concept of
intentionally putting minorities into historical roles that weren't minority,
just seemed like they were trying too hard to be "woke". And I'd forgotten
that nonsense of the cast of high school dropouts, lecture the VPOTUS from the
stage. Shut up and sing, no one bought a ticket to hear your mindless ranting.
If we're on the subject of our misspent youth in front of the TV, my vote is
for "12 O'clock High", where they ran the same WWII gun camera film of the same
planes being shot down every week. Then the later, silly ones, like "McHale's
Navy", and "Hogan's Heroes", the latter where the Germans were all played by
Jews (intentionally).
I'll echo the call to read "1491", I found it fascinating. If God allows you
to watch his old home movies when you pass, I want to see what this country
looked like before the first humans showed up, and what it looked like in 1491
at the height of Indian civilization.
And "Empire of the Summer Moon" is a pretty good read on the generational war
between Europeans and Comanches between about 1836 and the founding year of
A&M, 1876.
