professorpan wrote:Chew tobacco, rookie!
Damn right. Spooks like George Lucas have been nudging kids towards tobacco and alcohol for decades to get them on the slippery slope of recruitable risk-taking. Baseball and other sports are mock warfare.
Know what Bull Durham used to be?
That's called "social science," Pan.
On September 28th, 2005, none other than Chewbacca threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to a game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston.
Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/j ... index=6tml
The most recognizable trademark in the world by 1900, Bull Durham tobacco ads and trading cards typically depicted caricatures of foolish looking or silly acting blacks to draw attention to its product. Each ad has a green bull somewhere in the image.
Two silly looking black hunters have all the equipment for the hunt, but no match with which to light their cigarettes. The hunters are exaggerated images of blacks trying to immitate white people at sport. Notice the trademark green bull in the background. The Bull Durham bull together with the stereotypical images of blacks were a standard part of America's popular culture at the turn of the century.
