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  August 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Cas said ...

  Actually, the author based the Skeeter character on her own personal experience. She grew up with a maid that raised her and then left her. So it's not like she was totally just pulling this story out of her butt....Just saying.

• August 16, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Nedan said ...

  I've heard lots of good things about this movie. Co-host had me laughing my ass off in this review. I understand what Leon is saying, in I don't want to re-live this stuff or see it anymore but I also think that with new generations they need to see so they are aware of what happened. Especially since none of those people ever saw nor will they ever see justice.

  
  
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  August 15, 2011 at 6:51 PM, said ...

  @Aleah W.  My father-in-law grew up in Illinois and visits them  frequently.  His words, not mine, "We might drive around with [rebel] flags on our trucks in Tennessee but up there they keep hoods in their closets."  I've never visited my wife's family.   

  You bring up a good point.  Also, there was a different kind of subjugation, too: anti-Catholic and immigrants.  Some years ago I worked with a guy who was 1st generation Irish .  He told me horror stories of how deluded the pious North was in regards to their innocence.  He read the letters from his relatives and told me stories about one in particular who was cut with a broken bottle after trying to attend mass.       

• August 15, 2011 at 6:39 PM, said ...

  Hey, hey ,hey guys towards the end of the review I felt like Cyrus was getting picked on.  Why pick on the white guy, what have white people ever done to... oh, um, er never mind, lol.  

  My wife has already talked about seeing this movie, if I do I think I'll just rent it (has that vibe to me).  On a side note I made it almost through The Great Debaters.  It was the scene with the lynching and fire that did it to me.  I wanted to go out and gather up a group to beat up white people!  That scene leaves an ink stain on one's psyche.  It is hard to believe that only several decades back the simple quite elderly people I know today would have tolerated such atrocities.             

  
  
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  August 15, 2011 at 6:01 AM, said ...

  Hitler based his idea for racial segregation on what was done in the American South. That's right southern man, you inspired Hitler. Neil Young is in his right to say whatever he wants.

• August 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM, said ...

  Beheading black people was a sport back in winterfell.

  
  
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  August 14, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Lunatik said ...

  Having lived in Biloxi, ms, i can say that its not the stereotypical mississippi that it used to be, atleast in the city where i lived which was on the coast side and was big on tourism due to the casinos and beach. But i cant speak on the "rural" areas of Mississippi.

• August 14, 2011 at 7:30 AM, J. Judson Wright said ...

  Living in Jackson, MS, I can tell everybody that some of those characters are probably inspired by real people. My family who has lived here for years and years have some good ideas on who of these "fictional" characters might be based on real people. Also, I think that Korey was being unfair with the depiction of the black people being all greasy. There are a few things where they were all cleaned up and those were the church scenes. Like the other guys said, of course they won't be looking great when they're working hard all day. There's a foil between the proper, pretty white women with disgusting morals and attitudes against the rough looking black women with beautiful souls. I was so worried that this was going to be another "Great White Hope" movie and was so happy to realize that it wasn't. The black people in the movie were much stronger than the white people for the most part and ended up helping the white people MUCH more than the whites helping the blacks. It was a good review, though! Good job, guys. I'd give the movie a Full Price.

  
  
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• August 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Aleah W. said ...

  With all its flaws, at least films like this invite conversation about issues that are still relevant and shouldn’t be forgotten.

   

  BTW, the North was just as bad.  Don’t get it twisted anti-slavery didn’t mean pro-Black. I’m from Oregon and we had Black exclusion laws that made it illegal for Blacks to even live here originally and in the early 20^th century plenty of legal segregation.  Hey, just do a Google image search for The Coon Chicken Inn Restaurant …

  
  
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  August 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Aleah W. said ...

  It’s been a long time since I laughed to tears during one of your reviews, but this was great.A serious and difficult subject, but great review.  I loved the mammy dance of, “Stepin Fetchit up high”, fantastic.

• August 12, 2011 at 6:37 PM, said ...

  Going to see this with my family next weekend, they've all read the book. I think there is a good point, not every movie about racism needs to be super graphic in the horrors of Jim Crowd south though. There are some movies about WWII and the holocuast that aren't very graphic about what happened but are still well told stories. I love the Spill crew they always have very poignant discussions.

  
  
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  August 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Jack Gattanella said ...

  http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/08/12/why_hollywood_keeps_white_washing_the_past

• August 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Mr. T-roy said ...

  I think this is prob a good movie.  My wife is going to see it with friends tomorrow.  I'll wait till it comes to HBO..lol.  I agree with Korey.  I refuse to watch a Tyler Perry movie.  I saw the first 2 and I'm done!!!!!!!!  Worse than Amos and Andy. 

  
  
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  August 12, 2011 at 1:34 AM, said ...

  i have a 400 degree black belt in racism and everything to do with BLACKS, which is why i am staying the HELL away from this movie, im sure my mom would love it tho, she is allll about the feminst black power, she runs that cult! i seriously can't move an inch in this house with out tripping over African literature, my bed is made out of the books, my pillows, my blanket....the plates in the house, the house for the cats.  ain't no rage like black rage baby!

• August 12, 2011 at 12:44 AM, BlackMagic said ...

  The only movie that I think has had the balls to 'go there,' as far as race-related movies go, is still Rosewood.

  
  
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  August 11, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Salty the Beast said ...

  My reviüü: http://saltythebeastblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/movie-review-help.html

• August 11, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Tony Beers said ...

  Another film to placate to white-guilt.

  
  
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  August 11, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Bizzer10 said ...

  And the word of the day is.... Broad

• August 11, 2011 at 6:58 PM, said ...

  fuck this film

  
  
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  August 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM, bunbury said ...

  man..., I remember  when this site was a place to have fun and talk shit about movies and cartoons.

  Now every podcast is about black this, white that and mexican burritos...

   

• August 11, 2011 at 6:16 PM, said ...

  They shot a good bit of this in Jackson, MS.  I am from Mississippi and still here (near Memphis), and there is still a lot of hate in people down here.  Against blacks, mexicans, homosexuals, muslims, look or sound like any of the above, not Christian enough, etc.

   

  Just recently, some white teenagers near Jackson, MS decided to go "find them a nigger".  They ran him over with a Ford F250 after beating him for a while.  Story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/us/09hate.html

   

  We have a long way to go as a state, as a nation, and as a species.

  
  
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  August 11, 2011 at 5:28 PM, tyshunn felton said ...

  Nice Hollywood Shuffle reference there, co-host.

• August 11, 2011 at 3:50 PM, said ...

  Anyone Know what movie Cohost was talking about at around the 25 minute mark? Where people walked out of the screening crying, sounds cool.

  
  
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  August 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, said ...

  Feminist Date Night Movie-

  If you are trying to date one of those Liberal Feminist Activist Women take them to this movie or have a viewing party.

  I would call it a Rental cause I would probably want to watch it when it's at RedBox.

  That or if my wife wants to see it then it's a Matinee

   

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