Why does the angel have clothes??
Why do many Christian think the natural is unnatural?

Woodstock, August 15-18, 1969. If only to see if Ted Nugent really was as squeeky clean as he states.

As a person who believes in reincarnation, this is something I think of, if not daily then very often. I don't belong in this era, not at all. Sometimes my longing gets almost too much to bear, that's how disconnected I feel from this world. I don't belive in regression through hypnosis or some shit like that, mainly cos I think that if I did, I would promptly kill myself afterwards cos I can't go back.
I'll take it historically from early to late:

Medieval - anywhere between 12th to 14th century, England. I don't expect any of y'all to know the difference between those centuries even if it hit you on the head though.

Renaissance - that would be 15th century if you were in Italy, 16th in the rest of Europe.

18th century - France, unfortunately I was prolly an aristocrat early, early enough not to be beheaded in 1789 that is cos I think I might have contributed gladly to aforementioned beheadings later

Victorian age - again, England.

Native American - the world is cruel so first I was one and then I got to be white and see what "I" had done.

That's really how far it goes, anything later than that I don't feel any connection with.

Damn! I always wanted to express this feeling but I could never quite find the right words. Thanks, man! The "1980's" seemed so cool to me. I don't know why, but there was something about the loose lifestyles, I guess. Oh, and you can't forget about "The Flower Power Era of The 1960's". I watched a little too much of "Austin Powers". I love the spoof of "Goldfinger" when the leading lady of that film is satired. I also like the part when "Mike Myers" was flushing that guy's head down the toilet and he kept asking, "Who does Numba 2 WWWORRRRK FFFFOORRR!?!!?" all while "Tom Arnold's" going, "You tell him buddy!" Man, it looks like I'm missing out.

FarrahMoan said:

YW, but I'm a woman, ALL woman.

Teacher said:

Oh, sorry, ma'am!

JDInteractive said:

anybody else have a Medieval Times restaurant in their area? $50 to eat grub with your hands and watch a jousting contest ....no thank you.

I'd like to go back to Native America before settlers came and nearly extinguished all of them.

I would like to learn from them about the land, nature, and the Great Spirit. I'd like to run with wolves, ride horses, hunt and fish with them (& would also like to sip some potions and have powerful dreams )

Harlem Renaissance Era







from Wikipedia:
The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and New Negro Renaissance) refers to the flowering of African American literature, art, and drama during the 1920s and 1930s. Though centered in Harlem, New York, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Black novelists, poets, painters, and playwrights began creating works rooted in their own culture instead of imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans.

The Harlem Renaissance began as a result of the changes in the African American community after the end of the Civil War. The African American community had established a middle class, especially in the cities. The Great Migration brought hundreds of thousands of African Americans to the cities of the Northern United States. Harlem, in New York City, became a center of social and literary change in the early 20th century. Alongside the social change was a political undercurrent, fostered by groups such as the newly-formed NAACP and individuals such as Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. Jazz and Blues, staple music of the South, came to the North with the migrants and was played in the nightclubs and hotspots of Harlem.

After the end of World War I, many African American soldiers came home to a nation that did not always respect their accomplishments. Race riots and other civil injustices occurred throughout 1919.

Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from 1919 until the early or mid 1930s although its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, is placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity magazine hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and then resulting Great Depression).

Most of the participants in the African American literary movement descended from a generation whose parents or grandparents were slaves, and themselves having lived through the gains and losses of Reconstruction after the American Civil War. Many of these people were part of the Great Migration out of the South and other racially stratified communities who sought relief from prejudices and a better standard of living in the North and Midwest regions of the United States. Others were Africans and people of African descent from the Caribbean who had come to the United States hoping for a better life. Uniting most of them was their convergence in Harlem, New York City.

Characterizing the Harlem Renaissance was an overt racial pride that came to be represented in the idea of the New Negro who through intellect, the production of literature, art, and music could challenge the pervading racism and stereotypes of that era to promote progressive or socialist politics, and racial and social integration. The creation of art and literature would serve to "uplift" the race. There would be no set style or uniting form singularly characterizing art coming out of the Harlem Renaissance. Rather, there would be a mix of celebrating a wide variety of cultural elements, including a Pan-Africanist perspective, "high-culture" and the "low-culture or low-life," from the traditional form of music to the blues and jazz, traditional and new experimental forms in literature like modernism, and in poetry, for example, the new form of jazz poetry. This duality would eventually result in a number of African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance coming into conflict with conservatives in the black intelligentsia who would take issue with certain depictions of black life in whatever medium of the arts.

The Harlem Renaissance was one of primarily African American involvement and an interpersonal support system of black patrons, black owned businesses and publications. On the periphery, however, it was supported by a number of white Americans who provided various forms of assistance, opening doors which otherwise would have remained closed to the publicizing of their work outside of the black American community. This support often took the form of patronage or publication. Then, there were those whites interested in so-called "primitive" cultures, as many whites viewed black American culture at that time, and wanted to see this "primitivism" in the work coming out of the Harlem Renaissance. Other interpersonal dealings between whites and blacks can be categorized as exploitative because of the desire to capitalize on the "fad", and "fascination" of the African American being in "vogue". This vogue of the African American would extend to Broadway, as in Porgy and Bess, and into music where in many instances white band leaders would defy racist attitude to include the best and the brightest African American stars of music and song. For blacks, their art was a way to prove their humanity and demand for equality. For a number of whites, preconceived prejudices were challenged and overcome. In the early 20th century the Harlem Renaissance reflected social and intellectual changes in the African American community. An increase of education and employment opportunities had developed by the turn of the century.

Contributions that lead to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance included the great migration of African Americans to the northern cities and World War I. Factors leading to the decline of this era include the Great Depression.

Corresponding with the Harlem Renaissance was the beginning of mainstream publishing. Many authors began to publish novels, magazines and newspapers during this time. Publishers began to attract a great amount of attention from the nation at large. Some famous authors during this time included Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson and Alain Locke and Eric D. Walrond.

The Harlem Renaissance would help lay the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, many black artists coming into their own creativity after this literary movement would take inspiration from it.

"Drop Me Off in Harlem"

littlemissG said:

i don't feel like getting all philosophical today. It was the only pic of Adam and Eve I could find that didn't have them depicted as white people.

missfee said:

OOOHHH....good choice!! Can I come too??

reneGade20 said:

Take me!!

I love legendary Harlem. Miss it.

missfee said:

OOOHHH....good choice!! Can I come too??

Ancient Egypt for me.....

Id go back to the Medieval times where I can shag busty wenches, drink mead and eat chicken legs whose bones I can discard on the floor once Id finished. No that I dont do those things today of cause but different environment and all that...

littlemissG said:

i don't feel like getting all philosophical today. It was the only pic of Adam and Eve I could find that didn't have them depicted as white people.

IAintTheOne said:

Though, I wasn't born, I'd like to explore the "1980's" and the "1960's"!

FarrahMoan said:

I was a child in the 80's.....and I'd think it'd be interesting to see it from a teen's perspective or a person in their early 20's. At least the music aspect would be cool. As far as other things from that era....I wouldn't trade anything for experiencing 80's toys and the birth of Nintendo.

AnckSuNamun said:

The 80's were cool.....I was a teen at the beginning of the decade...when MTV blew the fuck up....Prince, MJ, Madonna ruled....it was a great time.....

...when I develop my time machine, I'll scoop you up and we'll go hang out....especially since I would be able to apply my accumulated knowledge to those situations.....

...a teen in the 80's....growing up in New Orleans..... I had it good....but now, it would be OFF THE HOOK!!!