Pjmm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:25 pm
SouthernIslander wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:08 pm
Pjmm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:29 am
She’s an actress. And I think she did do aerobic videos in the eighties. She also got into trouble during the Vietnam war. She was anti war, spoke on Radio Hanoi, and posed with a North Vietnamese anti aircraft gun. This is According to indiewire.com. I’m too young to remember that but she’s not any stranger to controversy
Really???? I am an 80s kid and everybody’s mom had her VHS tapes.
. All these years, I didn’t know any of this.
Vietnam War was before my time but I would have felt strongly against it too. I don’t know what else she has been involved in but I don’t blame her for that.
My mother didn’t do aerobics. And probably didn’t get a VHS until after I graduated high school. I believe the controversy was that North Vietnamese was the enemy and she posed with their weapons they were maybe using against us. She says she just sat where they told her and didn’t know it was an anti aircraft gun. She also denied reports about POW. I’m sure she made a lot of people unhappy back in the day.
Well, I really appreciate the history lesson ladies because this one slipped by me, and it helped me understand her comment.
Unless I read something that changes my mind, she appears to be an accurate definition of woke. Hosting a Huey P Newton press conference at her apartment and taking such a bold stance against the Vietnam War is pretty bad ass.
I saw the clip and I think she said it out of frustration at watching the country go backwards. After everything that generation went through, the outrage is understandable.