Posted on 01/19/2015 6:58:09 AM PST by SkyPilot
I WENT Friday morning to see “Selma” and found myself watching it in a theater full of black teenagers.
Thanks to donations, D.C. public school kids got free tickets to the first Hollywood movie about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday weekend — an effort that was duplicated for students around the country.
The kids did plenty of talking and texting, and plenty of fighting over whether there was too much talking and texting. Slowly but surely, though, the crowd was drawn in by the Scheherazade skills of the “Selma” director, Ava DuVernay.
The horrific scene of the four schoolgirls killed in the white supremacist bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church stunned the audience. One young man next to me unleashed a string of expletives and admitted that he was scared. When civil rights leaders are clubbed, whipped and trampled by white lawmen as feral white onlookers cheer, the youngsters seemed aghast.
In a delicately wrought scene in which Coretta Scott King calls out her husband about his infidelities, some of the teenage girls reacted with a chorus of “oooohs.”
DuVernay sets the tone for her portrayal of Lyndon Johnson as patronizing and skittish on civil rights in the first scene between the president and Dr. King. L.B.J. stands above a seated M.L.K., pats him on the shoulder, and tells him “this voting thing is just going to have to wait” while he works on “the eradication of poverty.”
Many of the teenagers by me bristled at the power dynamic between the men. It was clear that a generation of young moviegoers would now see L.B.J.’s role in civil rights through DuVernay’s lens.
And that’s a shame. I loved the movie and find the Oscar snub of its dazzling actors repugnant.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Laz, correct me I’m wrong, but aren’t MD threads supposed to be countered by pics of CZJ?
That does not look like CZJ to me.
I wouldn’t watch a stolen, free or found copy of Selma .......aka death of a nation part 1.
Despise agenda based movies that alter history, facts....my opinion.
Yes it is. Add the abortion rate and you can see the magnitude of destruction.
In other words, a leftist's wet dream.
I suck.
Scheherazade is a woman, the teller of tales from the Arabian Nights. She was promised that as long as her tales kept the sultan entertained, her life would be spared. So she spun fantastic yarns for 1001 nights.
“Thanks to donations.....”
What does it say about the public school system when unnamed “donors” can buy tickets to a propoganda film like this and somehow get these free tickets to public school students of one specific color.
This is straight and distilled indoctrination by faces unknown being granted access to public school children for the purposes fanning white hate.
I can’t wait to see if anyone in Hollywood has the courage to do a movie about the Knoxville Massacre and the subsequent daily racial violence from one certain group onto another.
preach it brother!
“It is a freakin’ movie. Not a documentary.”
today, its an incendiary device.
I would like to see a movie about the black on black crime in Chicago...in fact they could name it “Chicago in Black”
Over 430+ murders last year. About 80 injured in 2015, at least 13 dead and it’s only Jan 19th.
I lived in Chicago for over 20 years. I used to care. I cared very much. Not anymore. Doubt I ever will.
According to the URL, it is:
http://www.purehdwallpaper.com/wallpapers/catherine-zeta-jones-bikini-1600x900.jpg
But, if you use the URL to do an image search with Google, it identifies her as Catrin Claeson, a Danish model.
JHFTCZJP = Just Here for the Catherine Zeta Jones Pics
Glad to so Modo survived her Marijuana Overdose. (snicker) /s
That's putting it mildly! He was totally amoral, committed only to wheeling and dealing. He stole his election to the Senate, grandstanded over NASA, made a total mess of Vietnam, started the modern welfare state and the War of Poverty which has cost us how many trillion. And so on...
Sounds like the LBJ depiction is probably true.
Who the heck looks at the URL? Only a noobie FReeper who’s been living in a cave would rely on such for ID.
We all know (Laz especially) what CZJ looks like.
I did, after I had the same reaction as you.
But, I let it slide until you posted. Then, I did a quick search to identify the model.
There are a lot of books out there on Johnson and he was a complex character.
The truth about Johnson is probably worse than one can imagine and his motivations on Race, etc. were probably not what one might expect in trying to look for the truth.
There was once a rumor that Ole Lyndon had a black mistress at one time, is it true, who knows.
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