Skimming the surface

At first I didn't want to go see The Help at all because I don't like to see those times. When my people were really going through it with the racist bullshit. Those who have died and been hurt by it paved the way. Still things are far from what they should be and its going to take a long time before we get there. I saw the movie with my mother who is sixty one years old. She is from that era when it was still bad back then. I was a bit uneasy when we first got to the theater and it was full of all white people. Me and my mother were the only blacks in the theater at first. Then finally some more black people came into the theater to see the movie. People that don't live in this country always have something to say about racism and slavery. The thing is they don't live here and don't know our history. This country has a lot of shame for what they did to blacks as well as to the Indians of this land. Anyone who will deny that this country was built on the backs of slaves needs to go read some books. I was glad that the theater was full of whites after I thought about it. That movie only touched on the black women that worked in the homes of whites. It did not even touch on how a black man is treated here in America. Again its sad that you have to take African American Studies to learn the real history of this country. Like the bible the history books have what they want it to have in it. To tell a story a certain way for people to see. I prefer to hear the whole story the true story of things. At first the movie made me uneasy because I have read many of books about those times. I know how my people have been treated and still to this day are treated badly. In the same breath black people have to do better as well. We are the only race I know that is not united. If we were things would be a little better for us. Look at Obama he is the most disrespected President in all of history. All because he is a black boy and he got the top job. I like how they all came together in that movie and it showed the human heart. So many people are racist and its so stupid to hate a whole race. Its fine if its one person and they did you wrong. Hate that person but don't hate all of us for what one person did to you. Life is too short to be getting caught up in some bullshit. Someone I know said why are you so angry? I'm not angry its just life as a black man in America. We have the hardest job of all just being black. We have to work twice as hard as everyone else to get the same respect. I give respect to those women in the movie they were strong women. They had to be back in those times it was very hard on both black men and women. We still have not go to where we need to be. The Tea Party and the Republicans are out and out racist and don't hide it. I have never seen such hate and ignorance being played out in the news. Still a weak minded person will always say that its god's will that made them do this or do that. No you though of that all by your damn self.