Posted on 03/18/2008 7:19:13 PM PDT by lunarbicep
I sure did love Hogan’s Heroes as well...RIP, Mr. Dixon..
It took me a moment, too. The guy’s nametag says “Ping.”
What Bill said.
Corporal Ping is always good for a Ping.
His name is “Ping”. That ring a bell with you????
You are right about some of that, but I don’t remember Dixon saying or doing anything racist. He was successful in life.
Lebeau (Robert Clary) was also Jewish; actually was a Holocaust survivor. His expressed hatred of the Nazis on the show was not just acting.
That boy’s got a smile a mile wide God Bless him !
I wasn’t referring to Dixon. I was referring to all the black organizations listed that gave him awards.
I feel like the whole race sensitivity was thrust on me long after childhood. I didn’t care about one’s color at that time. Now I look at someone black and I’m on guard. Why? I’m not sure but it wasn’t like that growing up with them.
Because Jesse and Al and Obama’s pastor could not exploit your guilt if we all just get along. Don’t know how they sleep at night - Dr. King must be spinning in his grave.
After re-reading your post, it makes more sense. The black culture actually propagates division and quite nearly demands it.
To me this cements the mentality, "Wow, how unusual that a black can attain (fill in the blank)".
Why can't they treat them as just another individual that became successful?
what a career. those are some respectable credits; including a 53 year marriage. Wonder how he managed in America, as oppressive as it is to black people.
Hogan's Heroes was such a great show, I remember seeing "Stalag 17" years later. It became one of my favorite movies. It made me realize why I loved the TV show so much.
Shultz!
RIP.
And Arsenio Hall’s gums.
Rest In Peace, Kinch, you were always the cool one.
I was just a kid but I didn't see the humor in it then and I fail to see it now. What's so funny about Nazi's - even in a TV sitcom? I didn't and don't get it.
First Arthur C. Clarke and now Ivan Dixon. What a day. Another of the people who made up pop culture in my youth has died.
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