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Comment by Cassie on August 18, 2011 at 2:38am

Actually, the author based the Skeeter character on her own personal experience. She grew up with a maid that raised her and then left her. So it's not like she was totally just pulling this story out of her butt....Just saying.

Comment by The GodDamn Fatman on August 16, 2011 at 4:38pm

I've heard lots of good things about this movie. Co-host had me laughing my ass off in this review. I understand what Leon is saying, in I don't want to re-live this stuff or see it anymore but I also think that with new generations they need to see so they are aware of what happened. Especially since none of those people ever saw nor will they ever see justice.

Comment by SirD. on August 15, 2011 at 1:51pm

@Aleah W.  My father-in-law grew up in Illinois and visits them  frequently.  His words, not mine, "We might drive around with [rebel] flags on our trucks in Tennessee but up there they keep hoods in their closets."  I've never visited my wife's family.   

You bring up a good point.  Also, there was a different kind of subjugation, too: anti-Catholic and immigrants.  Some years ago I worked with a guy who was 1st generation Irish .  He told me horror stories of how deluded the pious North was in regards to their innocence.  He read the letters from his relatives and told me stories about one in particular who was cut with a broken bottle after trying to attend mass.       

Comment by SirD. on August 15, 2011 at 1:39pm

Hey, hey ,hey guys towards the end of the review I felt like Cyrus was getting picked on.  Why pick on the white guy, what have white people ever done to... oh, um, er never mind, lol.  

My wife has already talked about seeing this movie, if I do I think I'll just rent it (has that vibe to me).  On a side note I made it almost through The Great Debaters.  It was the scene with the lynching and fire that did it to me.  I wanted to go out and gather up a group to beat up white people!  That scene leaves an ink stain on one's psyche.  It is hard to believe that only several decades back the simple quite elderly people I know today would have tolerated such atrocities.             

Comment by Lucifer's Lawyer on August 15, 2011 at 1:01am

Hitler based his idea for racial segregation on what was done in the American South. That's right southern man, you inspired Hitler. Neil Young is in his right to say whatever he wants.

Comment by Lord. Cuntsworthy on August 14, 2011 at 6:38pm

Beheading black people was a sport back in winterfell.

Comment by Lunatik on August 14, 2011 at 12:28pm

Having lived in Biloxi, ms, i can say that its not the stereotypical mississippi that it used to be, atleast in the city where i lived which was on the coast side and was big on tourism due to the casinos and beach. But i cant speak on the "rural" areas of Mississippi.

Comment by J. Judson Wright on August 14, 2011 at 2:30am

Living in Jackson, MS, I can tell everybody that some of those characters are probably inspired by real people. My family who has lived here for years and years have some good ideas on who of these "fictional" characters might be based on real people. Also, I think that Korey was being unfair with the depiction of the black people being all greasy. There are a few things where they were all cleaned up and those were the church scenes. Like the other guys said, of course they won't be looking great when they're working hard all day. There's a foil between the proper, pretty white women with disgusting morals and attitudes against the rough looking black women with beautiful souls. I was so worried that this was going to be another "Great White Hope" movie and was so happy to realize that it wasn't. The black people in the movie were much stronger than the white people for the most part and ended up helping the white people MUCH more than the whites helping the blacks. It was a good review, though! Good job, guys. I'd give the movie a Full Price.

Comment by Omegaman20 on August 12, 2011 at 6:10pm

Comment by Aleah W. on August 12, 2011 at 5:59pm

With all its flaws, at least films like this invite conversation about issues that are still relevant and shouldn’t be forgotten.

 

BTW, the North was just as bad.  Don’t get it twisted anti-slavery didn’t mean pro-Black. I’m from Oregon and we had Black exclusion laws that made it illegal for Blacks to even live here originally and in the early 20^th century plenty of legal segregation.  Hey, just do a Google image search for The Coon Chicken Inn Restaurant …

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