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You should pray that I choose the latter.
Humberto 2021-12-26 08:01:01
This is the most impressive work on racial discrimination in the United States after "The Criticism of Officials". There is no doubt that its visual impact has added points. The film itself can only get me 4 stars, but the last paragraph "You should pray that I choose the latter" really shocked me. Because of it, I can imagine the tragic history of the American Civil War and even the tragic history of the American blacks in the 1980s. It seems that all the cruelty can be traced back here and then spread out in intricate gestures. They are not exposed because of emotional debate, but because they are really so cruel that they can move people's hearts. Speaking of so many years of freedom, democracy, and equality, so holy and sublime, after all, is gifted with human rights. In fact, how much blood and blood is needed for "talent" to be exchanged. Every contemptuous look is intertwined with every angry roar. Drinks and love can't make it fade away. It is a primitive call, just like the phrase before the death of Wallace in "Brave Heart"." Freedom!" Same. It is something that is truly remembered once.
Extended Reading
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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.
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Henry Lowe: School's the only place you can read all day. Except prison.