A social commentary movie that should be shown to all grade school kids

SOUNDER was a good movie, if a sad one, but it should be shown to young children everywhere about the true meaning of justice and injustice.

I went to a Roman Catholic grade school. One year my class was taken to the movies to see SOUNDER. As an adult I can see the social message reason that the school's Roman Catholic administration wanted to show and teach us...a historical case of injustice, social inequality, economic inequality, racial injustice (although outright race bigotry seems to have been adroitly sidestepped in the movie), and more. Now I can tell you that Roman Catholics are not communists, not in the least, if anything, anti-communists. But Catholics have endured social, political, and economic injustice over the past centuries, similar to what the poor black sharecropper family endured.

As a young child, I was appalled to watch the deprivation of the poor black sharecropper family. I was shocked that the rich white landowner would be so insensitive as to throw the poor father into prison for stealing a smoked ham to feed his hungry family. You throw a black drug dealer into prison for selling drugs, not a poor, desperate, black sharecropper trying desperately to feed his family. It appeared the rich white landowner was smart enough not to have the black man put away for more than a few months; after all, what good is a sharecropper farmer on your land if he's in prison. For decades I mused that had the rich white landowner been a kind and just man, he would have given the ham to the black sharecropper family. But that's a child's wishful thinking.