shown on Finnish TV


This interesting documentary was shown on Finnish television last night (Friday 20 August). I wonder if anyone else saw it -- are there any Finns out there on IMDB?
What was particularly impressive was the dignity of the two students as they walked into the building at the end of the film. How that must have felt!

I was young in the 1960s, and living in New York, so I remember the civil rights movement; I remember Bull Connor with his police dogs in Birmingham, I remember little children -- little black girls in their pretty frilly dresses -- being hit with stones thrown by white people, men and women, their faces distorted with hate.
what's amazing is how little has changed: similar hateful attitudes persist, just slightly disguised, among people in the southern and some western states (for instance Arizona) even today.

How did it come to this?

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