Today's movie is Booker's Place, an immediately engaging documentary with a story I'd never heard, about the killing of Booker Wright (seen above) for simply telling the truth. Needless to say, it's a pre-civil rights era tale that echoes uncomfortably into the present, because it features educated whites doing horrible things - as they act "nice" and claim compassion - and ignorant blacks doing the best they can with their marginalization.
In that sense, nothing's changed much.
We've now got a reader who's a Falun Gong nut, and seems to think he can email-recruit me with worthless "first-hand accounts of miraculous recoveries" and claims that "Everything Is God's Plan." He doesn't understand my view of American history.
"God's Plan" in America was for Booker Wright - a good God-fearing man if ever there was one - to end up dead-as-a-doornail at the hands of another good God-fearing man, leaving Booker's family destitute and in trauma for decades. And all for cutting through the bullshit without malice. That's still the plan. Hell of a plan. Not as good as Americans making "miraculous recoveries" from murderous nonsense, but - with God's dark sense of humor - clever.
I'd better shut up now,...
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