Forgive me, in advance, for what is probably a very dumb question.
Was there no way that Mrs. Spalding could protect Moses from the KKK? Did it not matter one whit to these villains that Moses actually was an employee of Mrs. Spalding and that she needed him to keep her farm running?
obviously not.
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He was "uppity" and cost the cotton gin owner money plus out-smarted him twice. KKK pea brains with fragile prides don't need much to act out.
Black men were lynched for looking too long at a White woman back then!
Right.
And with Mrs. Spalding's expansion plans and buying a new tractor, Moses wouldn't last.
Although Mrs. Spalding said "What am I going to do without you?" to Moses as he prepares to leave, I think she can stand on her own and hire one or two workmen.
It broke my heart that Moses had to leave and couldn't even say goodbye properly to the kids because of his bruised face. But the movie wouldn't be powerful and realistic if Moses was left alone by the Klan.
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It didn't help matters that she was a lone woman who had gone into "men's business." In their mninds, she was being uppity, too, but they weren't going to drive her away.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
Very true. My best friend, who is MUCH more enlightened than his parents wrt racial harmony, had two parents who grew up outside Natchitoches LA on farms, and my friend's grandfather would apparently joke about killing a black man for talking to his daughter (my friend's aunt) on the street. The glee was still there whenever I'd hear that same story. It's tragic. That was a human life, but blacks weren't considered fully human I guess. And yeah, the KKK was STRONG in the south. It was even ever-present up to the late 70s in the town I grew up, they even had a building for meetings entering the town on the main street, just to make sure that blacks knew they were not welcome. We as a society have come along so far in even the last 40 years....
shareThat's kind of the legacy of the south; lynching without cause except that a group of white people are fired up about a wrong doing, and blamed it on the most convenient black who qualified as the perpetrator for whatever twisted logic the mob applied.
It's a horrible history. Absolutely horrible. And what you're seeing here in this film is very mild by comparison of what actually happened to a lot of people, mostly black, but native American and a few others.
To be fair, not every black soul in the south was a saint. There are criminals of all shades and stations, but the blood lust the fueled the legacy of lynching is one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Omygosh. Blueghost predicted The Trump presidency. That’s a little spooky!
... a group of white people are fired up about a wrong doing, and blamed it on the most convenient black who qualified as the perpetrator [Obama] for whatever twisted logic the mob applied.share
Nope. This was the 1930s. Lynchings, racism, KKK all extend well beyond one widow in rural Texas. She had no means of protecting Moze
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