Glory one of Cracked's 'Most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism'
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digitaldiva — 15 years ago(January 11, 2011 07:49 AM)
Hi nubbytubbbiatchesgalore,
So true and thank you for your post. Someone recently shared the articles of secession from several states. Every one of them brought up slavery which was the engine of the economy of the South. -
Hancock_the_Superb — 14 years ago(May 31, 2011 05:37 PM)
Grant did not own slaves you twit. His wife's family owned slaves but Grant never owned one himself, and personally disapproved of slavery. His memoirs make his views on race very clear; whatever his other faults, by 19th Century standards he was positively progressive on civil rights.
Lincoln probably was a racist, as virtually all white people of the time were. However, most people would see the fact that he worked for the emancipation of black slaves
in spite of
his racism more important.
And yes, the old "economics" canard. What Southern economic system was the Confederacy trying to protect and spread?
"That's what the elves call Justice of the Unicorn!" -
harveythepooka — 14 years ago(April 25, 2011 08:01 PM)
All I will say is would it make a whole lot of sense if you had basic historical facts and also had personal an in depth written account of someone's thoughts and feelings about those facts and then left out the personal because the person happened to be white? That is what sounds like racism to me.
The movie is about the 54th, Shaw was in the 54th so end of discussion for me. If you leave a legacy you are going to get more screen time in movies than if you don't . . . so I guess we all need to work on out facebook posts a bit more in case we make it into the history books and posterity can know we just bought a new pair of jeans.