The FBN and Billie Holiday
Rather than celebrate a man whose aim was to bring us together, BooMan chooses once again to commemorate white viciousness toward black people.
Not just a movie
Maureen Dowd.
I loved the movie and find the Oscar snub of its dazzling actors repugnant.
But the director’s talent makes her distortion of L.B.J. more egregious.
Artful falsehood is more dangerous than artless falsehood, because fewer people see through it.
DuVernay told Rolling Stone that, originally, the script was more centered on the L.B.J.-M.L.K. relationship and was “much more slanted to Johnson.”
“I wasn’t interested in making a white-savior movie,” she said.
And so she lied, first and foremost to the black children of America but also to all of us.
She told a really big whopper of a lie to make white people look worse, to make whites who were all in for the cause of civil rights and supporting MLK look like his enemies and enemies of black people.
The same people who tell you white racism is a significant problem in the US talk absolute rot to prove it.
They tell you AIDS and Ebola are white inventions aimed at killing black people, for example.
Or that LBJ and the whole "white power structure" opposed MLK and the civil rights agenda, and wanted him dead.
If they believe these lies they are morons whose hatred is based on stupidity.
If they don't they are evil, hate-motivated liars.
They're probably a mix of both, like the anti-Semites of old.
Like Ms. DuVernay?
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