Mom's Mabley
I remember Mom's Mabley. She said, "The only thing an old man can do for me is take a message to a young man."
Moms Mabley told a “Cinderella for the South” tale about how Fairy Godmother appears to a black girl, who for her wish asks to be turned into a white girl. Poof, and she’s transformed into a white girl so beautiful that the local Grand Kleagle asks her to the annual Klan Ball.
The grand procession doesn’t begin until nearly midnight, the transformed girl is on the arm of the Grand Kleagle as they promenade into the ballroom, and you can guess what happens when the clock strikes twelve......
Moms Mabley’s humor is of a different time.
Yep - I ache for those times when the People had a lot more sense - along with a sense of right/wrong and personal responsibility. Black neighborhoods were on the track to responsible respectability back then - and LBJ came along with his "vision" and folks bought into it.
Mom's Mabley
I remember Mom's Mabley. She said, "The only thing an old man can do for me is take a message to a young man."