cinema review: The Rosa Parks Story
The Rosa Parks Story is a well made movie dramatizing the life of Civil Rights hero Rosa Parks. the movie is well made. the story is compelling. the scenes of intimidation by racist whites were right out of an horror movie. the good kind of horror movie where the fright comes from the unknown and the unseen.
one scene that was repeated a few times really shook me. periodically the NAACP office would hang a flag outside their office that read "a black man was lynched today." perhaps the conditioned racist would read that and think, "i'm sure he deserved it." even if he did, no one should be terrorized by vigilante justice, not that the white courts brought justice to the African Americans. another incident showed this of a young black man who was caught in bed with his childhood white girlfriend who defended herself by crying rape. he was executed.
injustices like this happen all over the world. as a blogger who notes injustice against Christians in the world, especially in India, i feel i could hang out a flag every day too saying, "an Indian Christian was lynched today."
one scene that was repeated a few times really shook me. periodically the NAACP office would hang a flag outside their office that read "a black man was lynched today." perhaps the conditioned racist would read that and think, "i'm sure he deserved it." even if he did, no one should be terrorized by vigilante justice, not that the white courts brought justice to the African Americans. another incident showed this of a young black man who was caught in bed with his childhood white girlfriend who defended herself by crying rape. he was executed.
injustices like this happen all over the world. as a blogger who notes injustice against Christians in the world, especially in India, i feel i could hang out a flag every day too saying, "an Indian Christian was lynched today."
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