By assigning readings from the trail records, students are able to see things that the movies are not able to capture due to the limitations filmmakers labor under. All of us should be treated with dignity and humane concern. The only passion that should influence policy is love. Policy should be soundly built upon foundations of fact and logic. We should not allow fanaticism to determine policy, even when the fanaticism contends that it supports positive values.
Ends can justify no means.
No acceptable excuses, no scapegoats, we are all responsible for developing and implementing policies that will create a just society, policies that will end the endemic oppression that influences all aspects of our society. Whistle blowers, yes. Manipulators of the truth, no.