{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Growing up I always associated Sunday, the beans-franks-n-cottage-cheese dinners we had, NFL games on TV, and the military...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/642269329483874304/", "html": "<p>Growing up I always associated Sunday, the beans-franks-n-cottage-cheese dinners we had, NFL games on TV, and the military recruiting ads on them - \u201cBe All That You Can Be\u201d, the Marine fighting the balrog, etc.<br/></p><p>Thinking back made the connection that those United Negro College Fund (\u201dbecause a mind&hellip; is a terrible thing to waste\u201d), Fresh Air Fund, Big Brothers/Big Sisters ads in the 80s/early 90s were \u201cnow that you\u2019re in a good mood seeing a bunch of (college graduate!) Negroes as \u2018your team\u2019, maybe help them out of the \u2018urban crisis\u2019 ghetto?\u201d</p><p>My aunt took in a Fresh Air Fund kid in the summers, a program to get black youth out of the purposeless urban school break into the country (LA\u2019s overcrowded \u201ctracks\u201d year-round schooling similarly prevented all ghetto youth from being unoccupied at once)</p><p>In his 20s he went to prison for a while, then later he showed up to family events quite charming, after all the \u201cdindu nuffin\u201d meme is based on the fact that even urban black criminals challenging the law and social order are experienced as pleasant and prosocial by their families<br/></p>"}