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...that said messages encoded in quilts helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, they had no idea that their hypothesis would inspire rancor from scholars who declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks and on the Web, and spawning an industry of quilt code books and patterns...
...Roland Freeman, a civil rights activist and photographer who has been documenting African American quilters for nearly 30 years, has another take on why the story is so popular. "Hidden in Plain View is how we got over those white folks. Right under the nose of white folk we're sending signs and symbols and they didn't know it. While I think it's so ridiculous, African Americans are starved for those kind of stories in our culture and we're willing to accept it because it's what we want to hear...
Contrary to popular belief, the entertainment industry isn’t actually getting any more violent, raunchy or sexy than it was a decade ago. We’ve always had violence on TV in different forms, from the sci-fi variety represented in “The X-Files” to the crime in hits like “NYPD Blue.” Crudeness, too, has always sold—“Married With Children” had far more so-called ills than anything we see today...
...focus of censorship can be attributed to the fact that we as a people have evolving tastes. We begin to really like something, and only then does someone come along to ruin the party. Most of the time, the reasoning is simple: What’s most popular generates the most airtime for a cause. Sometimes, however, there is a self-interested component that doesn’t go unnoticed...
...bright side. No matter what gets cancelled, gets modified from its original version for broadcast television, gets toned down, cleaned up or cut out—I’ll still have my “Maury.” Thankfully, that kind of trashy television is nowhere near popular enough to raise anyone’s ire. It’s a good thing, too—because just like the guests on his show, I’d do just about anything to find out who’s the father of all those babies...