And though this gripping, stranger-than-fiction true story of the victory of truth and justice over racial discrimination, bigotry and fear should have left one feeling uplifted, in truth I left the theater feeling rather glum. I felt glum because the movie showed events that took place at a point in history when the American Civil Rights Movement was just over the horizon; ...the courage, ...the suffering, ...the solidarity, ...are now behind us. And now, seventy years after Thurgood Marshall fought for the rights of the oppressed and the victimized, the fight has changed and the meaning of civil rights has flipped. In 2017 the civil rights movement in America is white supremacist racist groups, ...fighting for their right to publicly spew hatred and minority oppression on college campuses and any other public forum they can get their mouths on - and actually being taken seriously instead of being banished by the dictates of public morality and outrage to back under the rocks from beneath which they've slithered out into the open Now people need only invoke the name of God or Jesus to spin their intolerance and bigotry into righteousness and paint themselves as the offended or oppressed. And it's amazing how little people in this country actually care about the welfare of America's war veterans, What tribal fools we mortals be.
Please, somebody tell me something good.
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