Racism and stupidity and ignorance lingers. All must be defeated!

ignorance and stupidity know no bounds - looking forward to seeing the movie, especially after you comments

Last summer I spent a couple of days in Colonial Williamsburg. It's set up as a village which depicts life as it was in the Colonial times with actors describing the daily lives of typical people of that time period. It was a very hot, humid day and the first thing you see when you step back in time is a typical late 18th century Virginia Plantation. One little shack on the property first struck me as a storage shed. We went in and found an actor who was depicting a slave on this Virginia Plantation. He pointed out how typically 8-10 slaves would live in that shack (which was oppressively hot) and sleep on the dirt floor (that became mud when it rained). He told us how they would have spent their days working in the fields from their early teens until the day they dropped dead. Having been there and seen it and pictured myself in that setting gave me an entirely different level of understanding about the daily misery the slaves had to endure. It's one of those things that allows you to appreciate how far we have progressed as a society.

Racism is still here...and it's everywhere

Yes, growing up in Georgia was an enlightening experience, my darling Mother until her dying day, referred to the "War of Northern Aggression," and insisted her life would had been very different (aka better) if things had gone another way. She never would have considered herself a racist. May we all work to know ourselves, know what reality is, and be kind, kind, kind. I only need to heal my own unconscious racism, stupidity and ignorance.

PS - Its a great movie.
PPS - Fred "held his tongue" ?!?!?! Now that is powerful.

I guess I'll have to see the movie!

I would not have "held my tongue"

Have not seen it yet. But have read much about that southern sentiment.

It took me a day to figure out how to comment. Having visited many different areas of the south the woman's comment does not surprise me. Does it disappoint me? Absolutely.

I visited the South on a business trip in te mid-70's with a "mixed racial group" of professionals. It took as awhile to figure it out. We were not served i any restaurant and resorted to room service. Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the University of... I have never forgotten it.