I watched Rosewood again this morning. I was SO mad when Esther Rolle got killed on her porch...for telling the TRUTH! They knew GOOD and well that woman hadn't been raped...but rather than admit she was a lying whore...they torched homes, hung families...including women and children all for the "precious honor" of Fannie Taylor.
I saw this movie when it came onto VHS (yes, I rented it, lol) and I just remember being upset and crying at the animalism. The joy they took in killing "negras" and searching for the non-existent rapist. In spite of the fools that led the lynch party...there were a few who refused to be roped (no pun intended) into killing innocent folks on a foolish rampage of imaginary justice. John Wright, played by John Voight (Angelina Jolie's father) was the merchant who helped hide some of the Rosewood survivors fleeing from imminent death in January 1923...and secured a train ride to Gainsville.
Rosewood was a majorly Black/Seminole Indian populated town that had a thriving community where the families owned their own homes and businesses. They were upstanding citizens who were hunted down like wild dogs to satisfy the lie of a woman afraid to tell her husband the truth. As I watched this movie for what has to have been the 4th or 5th time...I looked at how disgusting hate can be. How ironic it was, to have them refer to Black folks as less than human, when it was THEM who displayed the ways of inhumanity. Barbecuing, dismembering and maiming the bodies of lynched and burnt men and women...ugh.
Anyway, I saw this movie and it had my spirit unsettled for a few. I'm ok now...but, I had to let it out. I think in a way, a part of me questions how much of that hate has REALLY dissipated. How just because we're not being physically lynched, burned and killed...doesn't change the fact that there are still hatemongers amongst us with the same mentality. The lynching has turned into false imprisonment and unnecessary brutality. The burning is something like rights being violated...and the killing? Well, they're still doing that...they're just finding ways to call it justified.
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wow. i've never seen the movie, but i'm going to watch it now. unfortunately hate and racism is something that will be around forever (i believe anyways), it's hard to iradicate fear and ignorance that's soo widespread.
your new layout looks *wicked*
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I'm with you on the hate/racism. I don't think it's going anywhere either.
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first time i watched it...was with my grandmother she was around 72 at the time and i just remember her crying cause this was when she was a young lady and it still felt like yesterday to her...killing the maiming and slaughter just to be treated like a human being..this movie makes u realize there were and there still is some really hateful folks in this world.
Yea, it's a true memory for her...witnessing such hatred openly. I just wept at certain parts...quite a story.
Pissed me off too.......by the way, you're an exceptional writer.
Wow, thank you...I so appreciate that!! *cheesing* :D
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