QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics (testifying in 1937 to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal)
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
August 2, 1937 - Marijuana Tax Act signed (effective October 1, 1937)
August 3, 1492 - Christopher Columbus departed Palos, Spain, with the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina on a voyage that would take him to the present-day Americas.
WEB SITE OF THE WEEK:
List Of Bests
http://www.listsofbests.com
RHINO HERE:
For those who will be in Northern California on August 15th & 16th, you'll have a rare opportunity to see the movie "FOLLOW ME HOME" including a post-screening discussion with Director/Writer Peter Bratt.
(7:30 pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961-16th Street (at Capp, 1 block below Mission, San Francisco, CA
FOLLOW ME HOME is a defiant, humorous, poetic tale exploring race and identity in America. By weaving together traditions of Native, African and Latin cultures, the film tells the story of four artists and their journey across the American landscape. Tudee (Jesse Borrego), Abel (Peter's brother Benjamin Bratt), Kaz (Calvin Levels), and Freddy (Steve Reevis) are joined by Evey (Alfre Woodard), an enigmatic African American woman on a journey of her own.
" Follow Me Home is a dazzling film that not only confronts the nightmare of today's dehumanized, racist society, but also suggests how we might build a different world."
- - Elizabeth Martinez, award-winning Chicana writer, activist and professor
"Follow Me Home is a wonderful gift...it is a breathtaking journey through the present, the past and toward the future. To whatever extent "American" fits into --or collides with-- your identity, you must see this film."
- - Angela Davis, scholar, activist, author
"Follow Me Home is a film of rare exception and power. Seeing it is to participate in a ceremony of memory, justice, reclamation and creation - a new, and simultaneously very old, vision of home."
- Jane Caputi, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
For more information: call Speak Out at 510-601-0182 or email info@speakoutnow.org
The Rhino is grateful to have so many insightful, challenging & talented blog readers. Among them is a musician responsible for some of the classic songs of the 60's political movement, David Crosby. In response to one of my rants a couple weeks back which went...
"I can't help thinking that with all the "regular Joe" Americans who lost their pensions to the shrub gang corporate cronies' bookkeeping thievery, and all the people who've lost significant percentages of their life savings in the stock market, and those who have lost their jobs in the past couple years, and and all those who are losing loved ones in these wars which were instigated by lies, that by now, a majority of America must be ready to chuck these scoundrels out on their ears."
David responded...
"me too...here are the words to my newest song ....a pissed off rocker about Enron and the like ...always remember that Enron was THE biggest contributor (I believe) to George's campaign .........
They Want It All
chorus.....
they want it all, they want it now, they want to get it, and they don't care how
want that Mercedes, want that Gulfstream too, they want to get it, get it from you
want your life savings, and your mothers ring, they want to have, everything
they want a mansion, and they want it full,
of wine and women, and political pull
they always own a, congressman or two,
that's how they get away, with what they do
chorus
they bleed the companies, they're supposed to run
aint no different than takin', money with a gun
they make it to jamaica, and the wire comes through
they sacrifice a lawyer, and they're laughing at you
chorus
they don't get prosecuted, don't even get charged
they're somewhere in the sunbelt, livin' it large
the government says we can't prove, they did it at all,
besides they've got these underlings, ready to take the fall
chorus
those people that they stole from, who's lives they laid to waste,
they should have to meet them all, face to face
and explain how come their mama, didn't teach them not to steal
if you want us to believe in justice, justice better be real
chorus"
7:15:27 AM 
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