May 10, 1996
Before I get to today's ZGRam, let me just tell you that I have had an inordinate number of ZGrams returned (simply oodles of them!) so there is something definitely wrong somewhere. If you don't get yours, you can always go to the Zundelsite, English News Section, and surf to the page where they are archived.
I have just returned from the Seattle-Tacoma area where I gave a lecture at a junior college. Tomorrow, I will describe what happened there and what my feelings are about those spunky youngsters who have taken up the cause of Revisionism - but for now, just to let you know I am back, I am sending you the following below:
A few days ago I watched Tom Brokaw, prime anchor of NBC News, answer a question on "Larry King" from the audience:
"What topic do you feel is NOT adequately covered in the news?"
Brokaw's reply was revealing, which I am paraphrasing here. It went something like this:
"There is one theme that's universally eschewed in our society, and that is that all people are created different. Equality such as we all give lip service to today is a political ideal that grew out of the Sixties; it's not a scientific fact.
Society reflect that realization, and it is troubling and dividing. Taboos are held in check by labels such as "racism," but that does not do justice to the sore, which is intellectual dishonesty for the sake of political expediency. We in broadcasting don't touch on that because we are all cowards, and because we know to do so would be professional suicide.
Yet it is there, and it is polarizing us. We've got to face up to this issue. We in America have tried for thirty years to come go grips with it, and we don't manage to get to the core. We dress it up. We dance around it. We engage in amazing mental contortions.
And yet here is a maxim that the different races themselves instinctively know - be they black, white, brown, whatever. We all know it is there. We all know it is valid. But we are all too cowardly to cover it and come to grips with it."
That's what he said. I heard him. Loud and clear.
Only that's not HOW he said it. The way he said it was: "Abracadabra."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it."
Bob Hope