So I watched Mississippi Burning again - how do you do it?

[Remote]

So I watched Mississippi Burning again.
It was showing on Encore just now.

That shyt blows my mind.
Like, that's a whole different level of racism that I couldn't even imagine. And that's just a movie. Reality was far worse.

How do black people watch that movie and not be filled with hatred when it's over?
If I was white, I would definitely not want to watch that movie with a black person.

 

[Alexander The Great]

So I watched Mississippi Burning again.
It was showing on Encore just now.

That shyt blows my mind.
Like, that's a whole different level of racism that I couldn't even imagine. And that's just a movie. Reality was far worse.

How do black people watch that movie and not be filled with hatred when it's over?
If I was white, I would definitely not want to watch that movie with a black person.

don't watch Rosewood, Higher Learning, or Fruitvale Station

 

[Remote]

don't watch Rosewood, Higher Learning, or Fruitvale Station

I have Rosewood on my Netflix queue

 

[King Poetic]

Rosewood was the movie I can't watch no more... shyt is tough, especially when mama get killed on the porch

 

[Citi Trends]

i dont watch movies like that anymore
they dont reallly do anything but make me upset

 

[William F. Russell]

Roots legitimately made me hate white people for a week after the first time I saw the entire miniseries.

 

[Arris]

They've done a good job hiding away our history. I watched this video like two weeks ago and that...man that made me so angry. especially for our women who we couldn't protect at all back then.



Nothing but truth in this video. They don't want this stuff taught to us cause they'll see some real anger. All of it is unresolved

 

[Peter Parker]

i dont watch movies like that anymore
they dont reallly do anything but make me upset

Yeah its weird I can watch movies about the wildest shyt with all types of blood, gore, drug use, suicide, rape, disembowelment, cannibalism, torture, penises being severed, just some wild shyt but movies like Mississippi Burning just piss me off so I avoid them, I can't do it. I mean I guess its cool that they evoke emotion but I don't like being pissed off for no reason

 

[Big D Bangston]

I made the mistake of watching "12 years a slave" before going to class one morning.

Had the The whole day.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

So I watched Mississippi Burning again.
It was showing on Encore just now.

That shyt blows my mind.
Like, that's a whole different level of racism that I couldn't even imagine. And that's just a movie. Reality was far worse.

How do black people watch that movie and not be filled with hatred when it's over?
If I was white, I would definitely not want to watch that movie with a black person.

it's just like when I went to the theater after the intiial wave of viewers for "12 Years a Slave" and there were multiple groups of white folks getting up and leaving (or the ones who stayed covering their faces and flinching like it was a fukkin Paranormal Activity movie). There was an older black couple (70s) there and you can see tears streaming down their faces. I wanted to jump and yell "nah, sit the fukk down. This is your ancestors you're so proud about."

 

[Infamous45]

don't watch rosewood fam

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Well I watch all those movies. It helps me stay grounded and focused. Nikka might watch some feel good shyt on tv and start to think everything is changing. I use those movies as my alarm clock

I get irritated seeing black people say "I don't watch those movies cause I don't want to get mad" then I watch these same nikkas get mad cause some one didn't like they status, curse people out in traffic for cutting in front of them and not giving them the "thank you wave" and mad at they spouse cause they didnt pick up the phone when they called, yet don't want to watch movies cause they don't want to get mad?

Just say you don't want to be mad at white people. Cause we have no issue being upset with black folks.

 

[Danie84]

Mississippi Burning and Rosewood Burnt a 90s Kid Soul Slow

...a youngin wasn't Ready for them CaCsucKKKas on that Summer Jam Screen

Forget about when my elementary class ('92) showed US "4 Little Girls during Martin Luther King Week

 

[the cac mamba]

just read that rosewood synopsis, jesus christ never even heard of that

 

[Alexander The Great]

just read that rosewood synopsis, jesus christ never even heard of that

and its a true story these evil atrocities are staples of American History.