Free to Be
I am being given an initiation into children’s American television. My husband swears that without fully understanding children’s television in the United States I will never truly understand him. I am a bit reluctant, it is like making me promise DNA Testing for our first child, but I love him so I have embarked on a voyage of discovery based on you tube. The first time I watched classic Sesame Street, I knew that he was right. You have public television for children featuring guest spots from some of the coolest artists around. Put down the duckie where you have some of the best and brightest stars of the jazz world and Paul Simon and Lady Smith Black Mambazo singing with muppets telling ernie that he needs to put down his rubber duckie if he wants to play the saxophone. I am not sure what this means, other than, you need to grow up some times. I went from there to clips from the iconic 1970’s children’s television special Free to be You and Me with its message of accepting all people regardless of stereotypes of gender and race, it is easy to see how the United States elected Barack Obama while, we, the producers of the Flower Pot Men got David Cameron. It is easy to see how this type of progressive children’s programming educated a generation that resulted in hopeful and visionary liberals like Michael Moore and Barack Obama. I wonder what they would make of rasta mouse.
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