Reviewers are gushing with praise for a new movie, “12 Years A Slave,” saying it “could do for slavery what seven-time Oscar-winner ‘Schindler’s List’ did for the Holocaust.”
But some authors who have investigated and written about such issues say they worry it could heat up racial tensions.
Jack Cashill, author of “If I Had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman,” about the case that inflamed racial tensions across the U.S., believes the film is just one of many intended to maintain the status quo.
“These kind of movies are designed to sustain blacks in a permanent state of victimization,” Cashill said. “It really started big time with ‘Roots’ in the 1970s. When ‘Roots’ got busted for plagiarizing from another novel and the author treated false information as fact, the mainstream media didn’t want to know it, it was too useful a story.”
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The practice of slavery is taught in this country in the context of pre Civil War North America, with white masters and black slaves, as though it never occurred in any other place or time and under any other circumstances.
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And of course all the slaves were captured by Southerners and brought to these shores........:)
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