Long before Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow and Madonna made headlines with their adoptive families, 1920s star Josephine Baker tried to combat racism by adopting 12 children of various ethnic backgrounds from around the world. Today the members of her "rainbow tribe" are still searching for their identity.
....Jarry Baker, the third adopted son, hasn't been to the chateau in two decades. Now 55, he is a short, blonde man of Finnish descent with reddish cheeks. He moved far away, to New York, because it was the place where he could be himself.
Every day at noon, he takes the train from New Jersey to the Port Authority station in Manhattan, and walks a few blocks to "Chez Josephine" on 42nd Street, where he works as a waiter. The restaurant pays tribute to his dead mother, with pictures, photos and posters on its walls. The restaurant is near Broadway, and many of its customers are artists and gays.
Jarry Baker, who is also gay, likes the place.
....In 1926, she bent over in her banana skirt, practically nude, in a revue at the Folies-Bergère in Paris. The audience was ecstatic. It was the roaring 20s, and in Europe's cities, where people celebrated with abandon, Josephine Baker, as a nude, exotic woman, satisfied their lust for pleasure.
Baker was a sex symbol, a role she relished, sleeping with men and women -- thousands, as she would later say.
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The desire to racially integrate neighborhoods, business and especially families is generally a sign that a society has embraced the crudest of moral depravity.
And we see time and again that nihilism accompanies social appeals to "tolerance". Thirty years ago churches began acquiescing to social fads and started marrying mixed-race couples. Today they not only also marry homosexuals and lesbians, but many appoint them as their ministers, their leaders.
A few decades ago some began to question the biological reality of race.
Today, many also question the biological reality of gender.
And on it goes.
It's no coincidence that the two places in the 20th century where blacks went to find the most "racial tolerance" were France and the Soviet Union. (now what do those two places have in common?)
At any rate we can add another name(Ms. Baker) to the list of calender saints for the Neo-Babylonian Christian.
Jim Jones, of course, remains the patron saint of Evangelical Christianity.
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