Posted on 10/15/2013 3:56:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Culture: Slavery's stain on American history cannot and should not be whitewashed. But neither should it be portrayed as worse than it was to serve a political agenda.
And yet this is what Hollywood is doing with its slate of horror films about slavery and its legacy.
"The Butler" — which claims to be "based on a true story" — opens with a stomach-turning scene of white cruelty.
A boy picking cotton on a Georgia plantation watches his mother dragged off to a shack where she's raped by a white landowner, who not long after the assault coldly walks up to the boy's unarmed father and shoots him in the face for timidly questioning his authority to violate his wife.
The mother becomes dysfunctional and the effectively orphaned boy is taken in by the plantation's matriarch as a "house n----r," thus launching his career as a butler.
It's a jarring depiction of Southern sadism. Groans and gasps can be heard from audiences as the scene unfolds.
Only, it never happened.
Longtime White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Forest Whitaker) grew up in Virginia, not Georgia, where he worked as a waiter in a resort and never spoke bitterly of his childhood, according to his biographer. Neither he nor his family experienced the atrocities depicted in the movie.
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that work today would kill our youth
You are, of course, right.
My disclaimer is the nearly obligatory one required by the RACIST white libturds now dominating the media and much of our culture. In that connection, while not ethnocentrically so, I’m definitely a culturist.
To bad we can't force out politicians into the fields and the the hard labor our forebear's did. They just might learned some values and respect for working Americans, not coddle and promote the dependency class.
Thank you.
I pray to God that ALL those — black and white — now ensnared in the white liberal dependency slam-dunk voting block trap will come to see how they are being USED by the despotic designers of the budding slave state in which we will all suffer.
So much for the compassion of the Western bleeding hearts.
Lol :).. Yeah, I learned REAL quick why the experienced hands were wearing cotton long-sleeve shirts ;^) (I was about 11-12 when I started.. and I WASN’T getting paid for it :p)
Funny you should mention asphalt.. I was 1 of 3 from my high school that were chosen (through application) to work the TDOT (Texas Dept. of Trans.) work program (summer between HS grad and Uni) before University.
My boss happened to be my girlfriend’s father >.< .. I worked REALLLY hard :D
(She cheated on me while I was away :p)
OH.. forgot to mention.. leather gloves were a must tossing the hay .. Actually, I grew to enjoy it.. just looked at it as a workout.
My mom grew up in LA-Lower Alabama- during the Depression. She lived in a house with no electricity or indoor plumbing, no phone, and no car. She picked cotton from sunrise to sundown. My dad grew up in West Philly, living in condemned houses and eating out of the garbage. They and their siblings went on to become entrepreneurs, teachers,and a surgeon without welfare, food stamps, or government assistance. My dad and all my uncles served honorably in World War II or Korea.
Time to divide the country by racial hatred.
and those people, the people that made America what it is and are $h!t on by this administration.
My mom and pop were both depression area people, both worked the family farms. I’m proud of my heritage and the people I came from too.
Looks like Hollywood jerks support the turkey in the WH to try and do just that.
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They are the propaganda arm of this regime
and I WASN’T getting paid for it :p
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With ME, that was a ‘figure of speech’...though anytime we went by to pick up the kid that lived on the farm always something to eat and welcome most any time etc...AND we did eat well the 3 days we ‘toiled the fields’..small town, small farm, guess somewhat like the ‘Amish Barn Raising’ life..
With YOU, if you lived on the farm am sure you got 3 square etc...don’t think you had 11 bros and sisters for the heck of it did you?>>... more kids, less hired hands....HA HA...
I spent most of my time with the worker’s family.. and they accepted me as family (as far as I could see at that age.. honestly, no idea what they thought of me :p).. (btw, they were illegal; but I will not stand for that today. Back then, they were hard workers for insane hours, and I was more than happy to work along side them with no $$.
Today, they (not who I worked with, but the common illegals) want anchor babies and welfare :/
The ranch was my mother’s BF’s.. I’ll leave it at that, although, at 11yo, he did teach me how not to care about what others thought of you.. and how to be independent.
He could get rough when he had a few too many.. but he actually never abused me. I still feel, to this day, he cared more for me than my mother.. something for another day to discuss.. but he was old fashioned, and he taught me that way.
I personally would love to meet him today and thank him for helping me become more mature.
Gotcha...we have a ‘parallel’ working there...
You and me both. It sickens me when I see the lazy entitlement mentality of so many today, who whine over minor discomfort and inconvenience, knowing how hard our parents worked for what they had. I am very proud of my heritage as well.
My grandmother (1888-1961), who lived with our family when I was a boy, told me that she was ashamed that her grandparents had slaves.
Very interesting post.
Thank you.
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