Crime History: Actor who played Alfalfa killed in fight over $50
by, Scott McCabe, Washington Examiner
On this day, Jan. 21, in 1959, Carl Dean Switzer, the actor who played Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" series, was killed during a fight over $50 and a hunting dog.
The show, featuring Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and Darla, was groundbreaking in the 1930s in that it featured white and black child actors interacting equally.
As Switzer grew older, he took odd jobs as a bartender, shoeshiner and bear hunting guide. After a night of drinking, Switzer, 31, and a friend went to collect $50 from dog owner Bud Stiltz. Switzer pounded on the front door of Stiltz's house in Mission Hills, Calif., and they forced their way into Stiltz's house.
Stiltz fired his gun, fatally striking the actor in the stomach. ..."
"The show, featuring Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and Darla, was groundbreaking in the 1930s in that it featured white and black child actors interacting equally."
Even a program in the 1930s about a gang of little kids and their dog running around the neighborhood MUST advance pro-civil rights propaganda. How "groundbreaking"! And yet how phony is this? How many whites today, even after decades of such propaganda in the media and in education, choose to live in integrated neighborhoods--and why is that? Only because of skin pigmentation? Sure, right.
And maybe one little black playmate in a such a neighborhood "gang" is okay, but how safe would your kids be if that neighborhood became, say, 80 percent black? And yet we must always yammer our agreement to this officially approved false, dishonest and deadly historical American narrative.
Even a program in the 1930s about a gang of little kids and their dog running around the neighborhood MUST advance pro-civil rights propaganda. How "groundbreaking"! And yet how phony is this? How many whites today, even after decades of such propaganda in the media and in education, choose to live in integrated neighborhoods--and why is that? Only because of skin pigmentation? Sure, right.
And maybe one little black playmate in a such a neighborhood "gang" is okay, but how safe would your kids be if that neighborhood became, say, 80 percent black? And yet we must always yammer our agreement to this officially approved false, dishonest and deadly historical American narrative.
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