Kind of disgusted with this country

That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

I am just curious how upset you were that Frederick Douglas was not in the movie Lincoln?

@ijuergen


The Selma march was the civil rights activists' idea, not LBJ's. Do your research. The only reason LBJ pushed for the Civil Right Bill is because the civil rights activists constantly bringing attention to it, and all the coverage the movements was getting and showing all the horrible things white Southern folks were doing to their black neighbors----it laid bare just to what horrifying lengths the Southern white establishment was willing to go to in order to keep its foot on the necks of black people in the South---blasting the off their feet with hoses, beating the s*** out of them, lynching them, shooting them dead, and flat-out making it damn hard for the to even exercise the right to vote or any rights they had as citizens (as demonstrated in the film,when Oprah's character is made to jump through all kinds of unnecessary hoops just to even try and simply votet---that really happened.)

Also, in most mainstream Hollywood films about civil rights (which haven't been that many in the last decade,anyway) the main focus usually tends to be on the white characters, while the black people who actually started the movement get shoved into being just the background drop of a white person's story. In other words, watching movies like MISSISIPPI BURNING,GHOSTS OF MISSISIPPI, and THE HELP, you're never know that it was black people who primarily got the civil rights movements going. There were white people/activists who made invaluable contributions to the movement and even lost their lives for involved with it---it's just that Hollywood has always acted like audiences won't watch a civil rights film unless it's focused on a white person. And that's what I liked about SELMA----the focus was squarely put on the black people who actually started the movement for once, and not some fictional "white savior" character who would get all the credit for doing the right thing, like in most Hollywood films on this subject.

Totally disagree.

It was quite obvious who the 'villains' in Selma were.

George Wallace, J Edgar Hoover, Jim Clark, the white stormtroopers who cracked a few black skulls and the racist rednecks in Selma Alabama.

And looky here - it's about 50 years after Selma and the deep south is still a cesspool of racist rednecks.

I am sure a lot of African-American Republicans were also outraged at the portrayal of their beloved hero George Wallace.

I like many other people already saw this movie in 1978