Always need someone to break the rules

Annette 2022-03-21 09:02:21

There's so much weight in this movie, and the sadness of racism is enough to overwhelm me - innocent black people who are neither robbers nor rapists are burned alive, and the United States The laws of the United States do not give them the slightest protection. The lives of white people and people of color are two very different worlds... The show is called "Furious Debate", and it is a group of children who initially only fought for the sake of debate. They were unfortunate and fortunate in that at first they were just for the debate, but because Professor Tolson was forced to be involved in this painful and violent racial struggle that lasted for many years; they were lucky, They found the value of life in the debate, and they were able to use the debate to fight and resist. It always needs one person to break the rules, and it is their debate that has opened up more people's resistance to injustice!

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  • Melvin B. Tolson: Take the meanest, most restless nigger. Strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female niggers, and nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a horse facing an opposite direction, set him on fire, and beat both horses until they tear him apart in front of male, female and nigger infants. Bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males within an inch of their life. Do not kill them but put the fear of God in them, for they can be useful for future breeding. Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lynch to teach them his methods. The word "lynching" came from his last name. His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.

  • Henry Lowe: School's the only place you can read all day. Except prison.