Exactly How True Is This?

Okay, I first saw in "Eyes On The Prize", late 1980s, an old black and white newsclip from the 1960s, where Sheriff White Man says to one camera "Mrs. Rich White shouldn't support the boycott by going to pick up her maid and drive her to work."

Mrs. Rich White responded to another camera with, "well, if Sheriff White Man wants to come clean my house and do my laundry, then I won't go pick up my maid and drive her to work and support the boycott."

Now because of this one little exchange, so boldly stated during the time of the boycott, I completely avoided a movie called A Long Walk Home, with Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg and Dwight Schultz, that came out, circa 1990, because I saw scenes where Schultz was interrogating Whoopi about how she came to work and Spacek was all nervous that Scultz would find out Spacek drove Whoopi to work.

This movie came out in the era of Thelma and Louise, 'women good, men bad', so I knew not to bother looking at it for any factual depiction.

I know good and well if any southern woman was chastised by her husband for driving her maid to work, she would have simply told him that he needs to figure out how to get the house cleaned.

And if any woman ever had to say that to her husband back then, he was shut up immediately because he didn't want to bother with getting the housework taken care of. This WAS the 1960s. He left that to his wife.

So this make-believe scenario in Long Walk Home was totally fabricated.

The Eyes On The PRize newsclip showed that.

And now I have just watched Boycott (actually a rather good movie, tho it focused too much on some things and not enough on others) and here we see officers issuing tickets to white women who drive to black neighborhoods to pick up their maids.

Again, this was the deep south. The white women probably knew the officers on a first-name basis, knew their families and severely scolded them for doing such a thing.

Second, I doubt any white woman stood there bewildered and flabbergasted as the woman was shown in the movie.

Third, if this even did happen, it probably happened to barely a handful of women and probably didn't last much beyond the first husband who complained for his wife getting the ticket to the local sheriff.

Fourth, which is probably what did happen if the ticket-writing did take place, the rich wives ended up siding with the boycotters against law enforcement for having the audacity to give them tickets.

But it just seems that with each movie, rich white women are becoming more and more victimized by the civil rights struggle!

In another dozen years, there will be a movie about the civil rights and the white woman will be beaten by her husband (echoing Frances McDormand in Mississippi Burning. I worked with the nephew of the deputy, Cecil Price. Not surprising, he said that was totally fabricated) as well as an actual freedom rider lady who was killed in her car in the 1960s.

Gradually the movies will end up with white women being the victims of the civil rights movement more than blacks.

Notice that the only movie about the Little Rock Nine was told from the point of view of the white lady principal (granted based on a book she wrote) but had that been nine WHITE children, there would have been a movie about them every ten years!

I'm not saying that such ticket writing against the white women didn't take place (in all liklihood, the white woman didn't pick up the maid on her front door step in the black neighborhood like that, they probably agreed on a mutual meeting place in neutral territory), but Boycott seemed to want to show the white power system as bullies and all I could see was the futility in what the white enforcers was doing, cuz 40 to 50 years on, we know NONE of it worked.

In fact, it seemed to drive the boycott and determination on. lol!