Also remember that Republicans were the party of Lincoln. A Republican getting black votes was not only not unheard of, but something that Democrats worried about, which is why Southern Democrats took such major steps to preventing black people from voting at all. Republicans could depend on black votes from 1868…

There's also that Rap and R&B are so mainstream that I'd be completely un-shcocked if a zillion suburban white kids showed up. People who were teenagers in the late 80s and early 90s and soaking that stuff up are only a little younger than I am now (I'm 46) and certainly as a college radio DJ around that time rap was…

You're illustrating something that comes up here a lot, and I think I should ask that you check out Jay Smooth (really his name) on this, but I'll give a TL DR version. There's a difference between what you are and what you do, and saying "this guy is a racist" can be useful shorthand, but at one level it kind of…

That second line would have been really interesting.

Smut is one of the only songs I know with a Supreme Court Case citation in the lyrics.

For me it was the Dr Demento show that ran from, I think 10 pm to midnight or 1 am on Saturday nights? It was on WCOZ in Boston in the 70s and early 80s.

I happen to own the last of those. I love the commentary. "I know there are people in the world who cannot love their fellow man and I hate people like that" (Intro to National Brotherhood Week).

Robert Kennedy ran for Senator from New York. So that might have been it — during the campaign he was called a carpetbagger by the incumbent, Robert Keating.

That I heard of — but I understood it to be a pre-calc like what we used to call "physics for poets" but lord knows I could be wrong (I suppose one could look up some old Harvard records or track down a former student, they'd be in their 60s and 70s now I expect?)

I think he also taught musical theater, right? I'd be interested to know what classes he was teaching. (For some reason I think he'd be doing Linear Algebra or Number Theory, seems like it would appeal to him).

No, he was outlining the beginnings of a split that would haunt us all later.

I LOVED silent E as a kid.

I think you need a little context for the Folk Song Army thing, though.

Apropos of @avclub-8f09b270dacd2e783d0c25f669670902:disqus mention of That was the Year That Was, he had an eminently singable (and adaptable to current events) "Who's Next" about nuclear proliferation. And "National Brotherhood Week" — which actually existed — is fantastic.

No but dang, it's not like nobody let anyone in on the problem.

I usually don't wade into stuff like this. But why is a movie called "Gods of Egypt" populated with Danes, Englishmen and I guess Germans?

I have to say I never liked the William plot hole (plotline) to begin with.

I remember the roll caps. For some reason I didn't like the banging sound (they were supposed to be put in these toy guns and they never really worked) but I did like scraping off the caps and watching them flash-burn.

Would Mickey from Shameless fit on this list? (Maybe someone covered it) but as a poster boy for performative masculinity…

An interesting question. I honestly don't know a ton about contemporary art. I looked at the names on the Fluxus Wikipedia page and drew a blank on almost all of them but I suspect that a person better acquainted would know better who was important, you know? (Any ideas?)