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Writer's Block: Prohibited
Dec. 5th, 2008 12:54 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Without question, tasteless clothing.
The year was 1970, only five years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in response to civil disobedience and protests organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others. Two generations later, with an African American having been elected to the White House, such conditions are hardly imaginable, but there was a time when - as we took our first tentative steps out of the dark ages and into a new age of enlightenment - prejudice was to be deplored, but still an integral part of the American psyche.
It was during this period that a Philadelphia real estate executive and television writer named Steve De Souza wrote a piece for True for Today's Man entitled "Sartorial Prejudice". The piece is brilliant but dated, hence this introductory disclaimer. It is satire, its message is inherently one of anti-discrimination, but preserves some of the attitudes prevalent during the day. Advocates of political correctness will probably get their knickers all up in a twist when they read it.
( So if you are likely to get into a snit about old stereotypes, don't read this. )
Without question, tasteless clothing.
The year was 1970, only five years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in response to civil disobedience and protests organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others. Two generations later, with an African American having been elected to the White House, such conditions are hardly imaginable, but there was a time when - as we took our first tentative steps out of the dark ages and into a new age of enlightenment - prejudice was to be deplored, but still an integral part of the American psyche.
It was during this period that a Philadelphia real estate executive and television writer named Steve De Souza wrote a piece for True for Today's Man entitled "Sartorial Prejudice". The piece is brilliant but dated, hence this introductory disclaimer. It is satire, its message is inherently one of anti-discrimination, but preserves some of the attitudes prevalent during the day. Advocates of political correctness will probably get their knickers all up in a twist when they read it.
( So if you are likely to get into a snit about old stereotypes, don't read this. )
