Comments on: Looking at the system, not the parts http://robinabrahams.com/2010/02/05/looking-at-the-system-not-the-parts/ Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:12:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Carolyn http://robinabrahams.com/2010/02/05/looking-at-the-system-not-the-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-5181 Carolyn Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:56:14 +0000 http://robinabrahams.com/?p=2942#comment-5181 Both you and TNC have indeed said a mouthful here. I have a couple of pet issues where I always want more discussion of the system instead of the individual, whether hero or villain--but I should know by now, there's just not enough time. One of them is "Jackie Robinson is the first Black Major Leaguer! ((In the Modern era--blacks were excluded by a "gentlemen's agreement" in the 1890's, and as commissioner, Kennesaw Mountain Landis kept the racial divide firmly in place for many years...)) Another is "Rosa Parks, simple seamstress..." ((--who had been secretary of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, hence friends with Mr. E.D. Nixon, (a protege of A. Philip Randolph) who gave Martin Luther King a firm shove in the direction of leadership, and what about the women who printed those leaflets...)) Any trope you hear as often as those, about any lone hero, must have such an iceberg under it, and there just isn't time to learn about them all, let alone repeat them every time. But sometimes I feel it would be nice. Both you and TNC have indeed said a mouthful here.
I have a couple of pet issues where I always want more discussion of the system instead of the individual, whether hero or villain–but I should know by now, there’s just not enough time.

One of them is “Jackie Robinson is the first Black Major Leaguer! ((In the Modern era–blacks were excluded by a “gentlemen’s agreement” in the 1890′s, and as commissioner, Kennesaw Mountain Landis kept the racial divide firmly in place for many years…))

Another is “Rosa Parks, simple seamstress…” ((–who had been secretary of Montgomery’s NAACP chapter, hence friends with Mr. E.D. Nixon, (a protege of A. Philip Randolph) who gave Martin Luther King a firm shove in the direction of leadership, and what about the women who printed those leaflets…))

Any trope you hear as often as those, about any lone hero, must have such an iceberg under it, and there just isn’t time to learn about them all, let alone repeat them every time. But sometimes I feel it would be nice.

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