Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston is dead. The black publisher's ink is flowing mightily. At the time of his death at the age off 84, Heston had come to identify reaction and a break with America's progress. He embraced the mossback standpoint of the National Rifle Association, and believed in the right of men and women to bear arms, under an amibiguous reading of an article in America's Bill of Rights. He felt proud as a white man as to how the whites had forged a mighty nation like the US, forgetting the minorities, slavery, indentured servitude, etc. He last appeared in Michael Moore's 'Bowling to Columbine' which plumbed the depths of guns in the hands of the young [or old] who go on a shooting spree. Critics went after Moore with hammer and tong for questioning a frail old man, albeit courtly, who had alzheimer's. Anyone seeing that sequence will rightly note that Heston had all his marbles and defended his reactionary stance with now his dead hand! Heston may have had some talent as an actor but he should better be remembered as a spokesman of black reaction!