Hey Jon! Grant miniseries

[George K]

On the History Channel on 3 consecutive nights:

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

Very cool!

[George K]

I'm going to wait until Wednesday and binge through it.

[George K]

I'm about halfway through the first episode.

Very very well done.

[jon-nyc]

Cool.

Can you buy/rent this or do you need to belong to a special streaming service?

[Copper]

Link to video

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Hey Jon! Grant miniseries:

Cool.

Can you buy/rent this or do you need to belong to a special streaming service?

It's on basic cable, so it should be available On Demand.

https://play.history.com/shows/grant/season-1

If you don't have basic cable...well I dunno.

[Copper]

If your cable TV provider has the History channel you can stream the series with a free History channel account at History.com.

I can't do this.

Because I don't buy TV from my cable (internet) provider.

I use YouTube TV, but that does not provide the History Channel.

[Rainman]

@Copper
So that means you have no history?
Copper has no history. None.
Bummer.

Insert appropriate historical emoji --->X

[SD Tav]

So the anarchist mob on Friday pulled down the statue of US Grant in San Francisco. Do you imagine anyone of those despicable vandals would have watched the Grant miniseries last month? I doubt it, in fact, I can guarantee none of these idiots know anything about what Grant tried to do to end slavery and what he did afterwards in combating the KKK as President.

[jon-nyc]

Same night the crowd defaced a statue of Cervantes.

Cervantes was himself a slave for 5 years.

Antifa needs a historian.

[SD Tav]

The fact that Cervantes was a slave was new to me. I read an interesting book called "Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850" by Linda Colley. I learned things that I never knew. None of it is taught in history classes (except for maybe Jefferson fighting the Barbary Pirates). The whole topic of slavery is more complicated than what the media presents.

[Copper]

The person represented by the statue doesn't matter.

The mob hates them all.

The mob hates you.

You will do everything the mob says to do.

Kneel.

[Rainman]

@SD-Tav said in Hey Jon! Grant miniseries:

The fact that Cervantes was a slave was new to me. I read an interesting book called "Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850" by Linda Colley. I learned things that I never knew. None of it is taught in history classes (except for maybe Jefferson fighting the Barbary Pirates). The whole topic of slavery is more complicated than what the media presents.

Can you imagine a college professor beginning a semester stating to the class, "The issues of historic slavery are very complicated. . . " etc. etc.

The last thing most kids want to hear about social studies of any kind of historic understanding is any link to "complicated." That's a word that will trigger mass exodus for the majority of the students.

Cramps their style, and interferes with what was taught in high school.

[George K]