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Monday, April 26, 2010

America - The Story of Us

I watched America - The Story of Us on the History channel last night and enjoyed it. However, was it me or did they never actually mention the words "Boston Tea Party?" There was plenty of discussion about early Americans' hatred of new taxes, etc. that resulted in tea being thrown overboard, but I never actually heard the words "tea party." Did anyone else catch it? Apart from that, it tried to avoid politics for the most part, absent Obama's introduction. (Can we please get a moratorium against seeing him on non-political channels?)

Second, I see that the great professor of race relations, Henry Louis Gates, was one of the commentators during the film. He didn't say anything too political, however, which was good.