RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

Robert Duvall

 

RIP Old Bull

 

Tom Hagen in The Godfather

 

One of late 20th century greats. Check out this acting class

In the winter of 1955, Duvall attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, under Sanford Meisner, on the G.I. Bill. During his two years there, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and James Caan were among his classmates. While studying acting, he worked as a Manhattan post office clerk. Until his death, Duvall remained friends with fellow California-born actors Hoffman and Hackman (who died in 2025), whom he knew during their years as struggling actors. In 1955, Duvall roomed with Hoffman in a New York City apartment while they were studying together at the Playhouse. Around this time, he also roomed with Hackman, while working odd jobs such as clerking at Macy's, sorting mail at the post office, and driving a truck.

 

Other alumni of that school include Gregory Peck, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Keaton, Eli Wallach, Sydney Pollack, Kim Basinger, Grace Kelly, Christopher Lloyd and the great Sally Jessy Raphael.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing her Lady Macbeth this summer at Stratford.

 

Jesse Jackson has died.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jesse-jackson-dies-age-84-civil-rights-leader/

 

Keep Hope Alive!

 

Thanks for sharing that.

I'm glad I remember it and I'm sad my kids don't.

 

Jesse was the first politician I ever connected with. I volunteered for his '84 campaign before I could even vote. (My own family called me a "n-word lover" for it.) He was Bernie before it was cool. I'll always treasure him, he was my first love.

 

He was.
Somebody.

 

I had almost 2 simultaneous thoughts after hearing about this.

1. He was a civil rights leader who will be missed.
2. How is our current President going to f' this up and create some sort of controversy? It would be better if he said nothing.

It's terrible that I had to even contemplate this but, this is our timeline now

 

ask and ye shall receive~

Obama, Trump and Biden lead tributes to Jesse Jackson: ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Al Sharpton, Donald Trump and more react to death of the civil rights leader at the age of 84


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Donald Trump, in a post on his Truth Social social media platform, called Jackson “a good man” and a “friend”, also noting he had provided office space in New York for Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition.

Trump’s post, as is often the case, quickly turned political, and about himself. The president attacked the “scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left” who, he said, “falsely and consistently” called him a racist, and sought recognition for “funding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which Jesse loved”.

Trump also took a swing at a familiar political foe, Barack Obama, whom, he claimed falsely, Jackson “could not stand”.​

 

He actually had a normal presidential reaction. Even though The Blacks voted overwhelmingly for Ka-mala.

 

Booo. For the record, I did not ask, nor did I want to receive. In hindsight, Trump f'ing this up and making it about himself would have been a sure thing on any betting site. So sure about it, that it would have been a question of when rather than if.

And bookies could have set an egg timer set to it

 

Actual normal? Or normal-for-Trump-normal?

Trump uses Jesse Jackson’s death to land yet another hit on Obama

 

Did He ever tell you about the time He knows More words than any Other President in History? PERIOD?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

 

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/jesse-jackson-rip

 

I did not remember this…

He was the keynote speaker at a Republican National Committee meeting in 1976, arguing “We must pursue a strategy that prohibits one party from taking us for granted and the other party from writing us off. The only protection we have against political genocide is to remain necessary.” He then told the RNC that the way to gain Black support was to quit complaining about government subsidies when they helped Black Americans but shut up about them when they helped whites. He got a standing ovation. This however did not change Republicans’ position on race and welfare.[1]​

 

The former

 

Key sentence the last one

 

He also called abortion a form of genocide practiced against blacks back in the 70s and of course had the Hymietown incident.

His comments about Obama were something else, as well, but I'm almost certain that was a stroke of genius on his part due to how he knew a lot of white voters felt about him by that point.

 

I always liked how he spoke, kind of an unusual cadence/accent. And I always listened to what he had to say. RIP

 

My first view of racial reality was when I was 7-8 years old. My Mother was active in the Lake County (IL) League of Women Voters. These White corporate wives involved themselves in the Rainbow/PUSH coalition's Operation Breadbasket. I got to deliver picnic baskets on the South Side.
Then...Cook County States Attorney Ed Hanrahan sent a hit squad to murder Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. There was immediate contention about the circumstances. the police insisted they were met by gunfire and responded. They showed bullet holes in the walls behind them. The bullet holes were really painted over nail pops. Every day I read the great columnist Mike Royko. He took this on like a shark in a frenzy.
This is when I recognized the central issue of our society for my whole generation.