From Selma to…….Ferguson
Frank Jackman comment:
A lot of people have praised the film Selma since its opening last weekend and rightly so. The question which I ask, and which a lot of other people I know have asked, is in light of what has happened over the past fifty years to the black population of this country (cop brutality, political indifference even with a black man as president, incarcerations, “war” on drugs, unemployment, poor schools, segregated housing, north and south, increased barrier to voting, to name just the most obvious) what the hell is going on. No question in some areas (increase of the black middle class, blacks winning elections, slightly more social interaction between races, etc.) there have been some improvement but is the legacy that those who “went south” black and white and put their lives heroically on the line as this film graphically points out their actions produced. More later as we come closer to the 50th anniversary dates.
Frank Jackman comment:
A lot of people have praised the film Selma since its opening last weekend and rightly so. The question which I ask, and which a lot of other people I know have asked, is in light of what has happened over the past fifty years to the black population of this country (cop brutality, political indifference even with a black man as president, incarcerations, “war” on drugs, unemployment, poor schools, segregated housing, north and south, increased barrier to voting, to name just the most obvious) what the hell is going on. No question in some areas (increase of the black middle class, blacks winning elections, slightly more social interaction between races, etc.) there have been some improvement but is the legacy that those who “went south” black and white and put their lives heroically on the line as this film graphically points out their actions produced. More later as we come closer to the 50th anniversary dates.
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