tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8634297375935067318..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Another Side of Johnny TremainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-51034835721966948072008-07-04T10:00:00.000-05:002008-07-04T10:00:00.000-05:00Years ago I saw a lecture about 19th century minst...Years ago I saw a lecture about 19th century minstrels by a young, hip professor. "We will proceed from the truism that all white men in this country feel strong, sublimated homosexual desire for black men," he announced, then proceeded to do just that. Huh?<BR/><BR/>Wish I could remember his name.<BR/><BR/>Of course sometime this line of analysis is quite correct--as in the heartbreaking romance between Maverick and Goose in the film Top Gun, or the movie 300, or the life of Meriwether Lewis. Other times it is more of a Rorschach test.Larry Cebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798046652983001155noreply@blogger.com