(Note, I had no idea what would happen when I inserted the link at the end of this so I tried it. It will not play directly but will give you the choice to click on the You Tube version and watch. And if for any reason it doesn’t work, well you know the drill, just Google it — Frank Sinatra, “The House I Live In”)
That being said, I first saw this at the age of 7 at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn in what was called a G.O. (General Organization) Assembly. The other GO Assembly I remember in those years was a performance by a troop of Hoppi Indians.
But this little 10 minute film made a profound impression on me. Well it was supposed to and especially supposed to make one on kids. The direct subject was anti-semitism but it applies across the board and never more than now in Donald Trump’s America for all the obvious reasons.
You don’t need me to recite those reasons. You know them. You probably of course know this wonderful little film made in 1945, produced and directed by Merwyn Laroy I believe and of course the music by Earl Robinson, who also wrote “Ballad for Americans”. Yep he was a Communist. So was my father.
So? It’s over 70 years since I wore red diapers.
So, as I said, so?
Frank Sinatra, who stars in this small but important statement about our nation was you know a real lefty back in the day. He was not a Communist or even, what they called so unattractively, “a fellow traveler”, the kind of person that people like Ronald Reagan who “named names” named.
Nope back in those days Frank was just a good fellow, a true blue liberal. A man of strong, definite and definitive progressive views. To the degree his politics changed somewhat over time don’t blame Frank.
No blame Bobby Kennedy who hounded and double dealt him and J.F.K. who used and discarded him and especially the patriarch, the twisted Joseph P. Kennedy, who with his complete corruption recruited Frank Sinatra to the Kennedy campaign and then made sure his sons did the worst they could do to the incomparable Frank Sinatra.
So here it is. I am going to post it on FB and then going to post it there once a week from now until Trump is no longer living in our White House, because remember that house is our house.
The White House is the house we live in, we the American people live in it no matter who occupies it for four years.
Peeling the Onion 