The nature of hate...

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2005)

I just finishing watching the movie...wasn't able to see it in it's entirety. But nonetheless the movie was incredibly moving. I found myself compelled from time to time screaming at the TV. As an African-American I also found a brief but poignant hatred of "white people" take over me. But I came to my senses and reflected on the fact that good and evil exist in every human being...that every white person wasn't a racist and that some whites had the courage to find against injustice. Just as every black person isn't a saint and can be complicit in wrong doing. I questioned whether or not I would be a racist had I been born white in the South. I thought about the role of courage and the need to stand up for what's right even when the status quo is different. I have always been fascinated by the nature of hate...and how it can lead people to do such horrendous things (whoever they are). I think about slavery and the Holocaust as clichÃ© but important examples. I'm sorry this review is less about the movie and more about the thoughts it provoked in me. Overall, I thought it was a GREAT movie and is worth everyone seeing. I'm glad that we've advanced as a society and a world community, but we have so far to go. If God exists may he be with us.