‘Selma’ Cast, Director Wear ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Shirts at N.Y. Premiere

Variety ^ | 12/15/14

[SoFloFreeper]

Parties and protests don’t typically overlap, but the “Selma” cast made an exception and a statement on Sunday night following the film’s Manhattan premiere. At one point during the otherwise splashy festivities, director Ava DuVernay took to the steps of the New York Public Library with actors David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Wendell Pierce, Omar Dorsey, John Lavelle, Stephan James, Kent Faulcon, Lorraine Toussaint, Andre Holland, Tessa Thompson and Colman Domingo, donning “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts over their partywear and raising their arms in the “don’t shoot” pose.

It was not just an unusually sobering photo op, but also a direct acknowledgment of the eerie timing of Paramount’s civil rights drama, with its scenes of organized protest and its urgent plea for justice and reform. The premiere was held the same weekend that more than 25,000 men and women marched through Manhattan, in the largest protest the city has seen since a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner.

The picture’s timeliness is undeniable, said Toussaint, who plays the civil rights activist Amelia Boynton. “There are no accidents,” she said.

[SoFloFreeper]

In my opinion, the Eric Garner case is very different from the Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown cases.

The latter two threatened, by word or action, to kill. Garner was selling smokes.

How to react to these actors speaking out? I wonder if they will acknowledge the way policies pushed by Democrats in the last 40 years have contributed to the deterioration of the family--especially black families.

The Democrats have perpetuated true racism by affirmative action, quotas, soft bigotry, expansion of the welfare state, abortion, restriction of school choice, etc.

I wonder, truly, if any of these folks have talked to or read Star Parker, Walter Williams, Allen West, Thomas Sowell, Mia Love, Lloyd Marcus, Crystal Wright, or Erika Harold.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I got a T-Shirt for them... I cant buy a ticket!

[Baynative]

"...actors David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Wendell Pierce, Omar Dorsey, John Lavelle, Stephan James, Kent Faulcon, Lorraine Toussaint, Andre Holland, Tessa Thompson and Colman Domingo,"

...who have now been heard of for both the first and last time in their lives.

[molson209]

The “I Can’t Breathe” supporters never go to the movies anyway ,unless they can sneak in

[windsorknot]

Add another movie to the list of ones I won’t ever watch.

[Iron Munro]

[newfreep]

Mary Jo says “Thank you” for the real truth.

[Terry L Smith]

they get no awards, no metions at last awards gathering ... wah, wah, wah!

[TruthBeforeAll]

Maybe we should come up with T-Shirts with what the thousands of innocent people murdered by young blacks might might have said as they were being shot, stabbed and raped.