Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the deepening autumnal landscape of the upper Middle West, the northern Rockies and the Far West soared the White House caravan of three sleek 707s (Kennedy's Air Force One, a backup plane and a press plane). Wherever the "Conservation Tour" set down, folks seemed a bit awed...
And every so often Davis says what he really means: "I wonder if they's a hell for white folks only."
The script is still a stage play, the settings are obviously painted flats, the actors yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down...
"I'm a great one for race pride," says a Negro girl (Ruby Dee) who works for white folks. "It's jes' that I cain't use it much in my line a wuk."
"How come it's always the cullud folks got to do the forgivin'?"