Thursday, March 27, 2014

AMERICAN BLACK HISTORY #36...."THE BUTLER" movie

WE  HAVE  A  WHOLE  GENERATION  NOW  THAT  OFTEN  HAS  NO  CLUE  ABOUT  THE  WAY  THINGS  WERE,  BACK  IN  THE  20TH  CENTURY.... FOR  WAY  TOO  LONG  A  TIME,  IN  THE  SORDID,  HORRIFIC  HISTORY  OF  THE  CIVIL  RIGHT  MOVEMENT.

WENT  TO  SE  IT  AT  THE  THEATER  WHEN  IT  FIST  CAME  OUT,  AND  JUST  BOUGHT  THE  DVD  AND  FINISHED  WATCHING  IT  AGAIN......  "THE  BUTLER."

IT  IS  A  PERIOD  OF  TERRIBLE  RACE  ISSUE,  BIGOTRY,  HATE,  RACISM,  SEGREGATION,  VIOLENCE,  DEATH,  SHAMEFUL  IDEOLOGIES,  EVEN  FALSE  RELIGIOUS  THEOLOGY  FOR  SOME.

EVERY  CHILD  WHO  REACHES  TEENAGE  IN  ALL  SCHOOLS  SHOULD  HAVE  TO  WATCH  THIS  MOVIE.

IT  IS  HEART-BREAK,  LOVE,  RACISM,  VIOLENCE,  MISUNDERSTANDING,  AND  YET  ALSO,  INSPIRING,  AND  UPLIFTING.  

THE  FIGHT  FOR   RIGHT  OVER  WRONG,  IN  PERSONAL  LIVES  AND  IN  THE  LIFE  OF  THE  NATION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,  IS  TOLD  IN  THIS  TRUE  LIFE  MOVIE.

ON  THE  BACK  IT  STATES:

"INSPIRED  BY  A  TRUE  STORY.  ACADEMY  AWARD  WINNER  FOREST  WHITAKER  STARS  AS  CECIL  GAINES,  THE  DEVOTED  HUSBAND,  FATHER,  AND  WHITE  HOUSE  BUTLER  WHO  SERVED  SEVEN  PRESIDENTS  DURING  SOME  OF  THE  MOST  TUMULTUOUS  AND  DEFINING  MOMENTS  OF  THE  20TH  CENTURY."

YES,  IT  IS  A  MOVIE  ALL  HOUSEHOLDS  RAISING  CHILDREN  SHOULD  HAVE  AS  PART  OF  THEIR  MOVIE  COLLECTION,  FOR  THE  EDUCATION  OF  HISTORY  PAST  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA.
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