Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Banished


A New Movie showing now in Manhattan NYC:


Film Forum

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(212) 727-8110


One agitator, a former Confederate soldier and the future mayor of Wilmington, vowed that he and other like-minded whites would never surrender “even if we have to choke the Cape Fear River with carcasses.” What followed was a coup d’état, possibly the only time that a municipal government was toppled in American history. Black residents were murdered; the local black newspaper was torched, and survivors exiled. Reconstruction died, and Jim Crow moved right in.


Just so people can see why the Jena situation is so offensive and not to be taken lightly.

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