Political Correctness

[Smartboy]

One a bunch of occasions, I have tied in the reality of Olympic Athlete Jim Thorp with various pages on this site. For those of you who do not know, it was in 1982 (which was long after his death) that he was re-credited with having won all of the gold medals that he was stripped of shortly after he had won them. The fact that the medals were taken away was because it got revealed that he had earned a marginal amount of money playing on a minor leauge baseball team which made him a professional athlete and, at that time, the Olympics was strickly for amatures. A lot of people feel that it was because he was an American Indian that the Olympic Board dug that deep to find that tiny, little skeloton in his closet. In any event, his family took on this issue as a cause and it was in 1982 that the Board finally gave in. This was thirty years ago. I am writing about this here as a way of commemoarting the thirty views of my last thread on this page. However, there is another way that I can tie this reality in with "Caroline in the City". Doing something nice for an American Indian family seemed like the politically correct thing to do back in 1982. Well, this show's Lea Thompson has been the spokes person in at least two, "The More You Know" commercials. The whole concept of "The More You Know" was founded on the idea of political correctness! Just one more case of history repeating itself!