Ken Burns is a guilty white liberal.
I watched a few minutes of his Baseball documentary and it was only about race relations,
maybe the rest was OK but I couldn’t take it.
Cobb is not as bad of a villan as he was made out to be, just as much as Jackie Robinson was not a Saint.
I wonder who made Ken Burns the ultimate expert of baseball.
The entire world and all history has been reinterpreted as an eternal conflict between the reactionary "rednecks" and the oppressed, progressive Blacks. Certainly this has now become the main narrative of "American history" as now taught and even talked about. It's a sort of supersessionism, with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson being replaced by Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
The really ironic thing in all this is that Blacks are among the very oldest and most native population groups in the country, unlike all the groups celebrated along side them. Plus they are of rural, Southern, agricultural, and Fundamentalist Protestant origins and traditions. Not that you can tell by their political activity and their leadership. As much as I detest liberals and liberalism, they could not have been transformed into the "ultimate otherness" without a lot of actual racism and atrocities committed against them over the centuries.
It's a d@rn shame all around.
A brilliant parody of every Ken Burns documentary you’ve ever seen.
The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8