Reply #12: I have had it on all week -- it is as great as Burns' Civil War years ago [View All]

[E_Zapata]

A stunning documentary. Just stunning.

When one's PBS station does a fundraiser and they offer the series on DVD for a $500 contribution - GET IT.

I think (?) that PBS stations will be replaying it like one night a week for a lot of weeks or something. They keep advertising it to start showing around Oct 6th or so......(like on Am. Experience or something). I could be wrong.

I have had it on every night all week. And it has touched my soul in a big way. The blues are just that...the blues: so much sadness and suffering but with such strength. I don't want to diminish the plight of the black man in this country by saying this, but I relate to oppression for the first time in my life. I just didn't realize how heavy my heart is in response to our new fascist country. I was a blues fan before, but now I feel I am a part of the blues. We all are.

I look at the bush years not as making life worse for the majority of Americans, but simply pushing down ONE CLASS of people down into the reality of what America has been for the lower classes for a couple of centuries.