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Originally Posted by jgomez65  It seems to me like you watch the world through the glasses of film. If that is the case, pick a better glass. Each movie that comes out seves the interest of the director, the producers and the studios. |
lol. Actually, you couldn't be more wrong. It was HWNorth's mention of Mississippi Burning that brought it to mind.
I have no TV and very rarely watch movies. While I did see Ruby Bridges and Guess Who just a few months ago, the others were part of my senior seminar, which was about "Racial Depictions in the Dramatic Film Industry" I spent hours watching stereotypes (often see gays similarly stereotyped now)
Regardless of the details, however, the truth remains. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES saw blacks as people who were all out to rape the white woman and who were incompetant, inherently bad people. THE PRESIDENT. Doesn't that tell you a bit about where society has come? My God - we now have a Black man in the running for that very office! The world has grown.
The white kids WERE killed for trying to help obtain the black vote. Blacks were lynched. There were even postcards made of white people crowding around the bodies of black men hanging from lightposts. There were terrible protests over school segregation. The KKK has done horrendous things. JCountless ews, homosexuals and others were killed by the Nazi's because they didn't fit their definition of what was "acceptable."
If you deny these simply truths, then you are the one needed to select a different pair of glasses.