Some Kansas City activists say that the fight for a higher minimum wage is the new civil right struggle.
Accordingly, here's a note from local activists regarding an upcoming civil rights events . . .
"Stand Up KC invites you to a free showing of Selma to celebrate Black History Month on February 8 at 5pm! Rev'd Tex Sample, who heard the national call to action in 1965 and marched with Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery, will hold a Q&A following the film. Our movement stands on the shoulders of the Civil Rights Movement. Like those before us, we know racial and economic equality aren't gifts, but something we will win by organizing, fighting, and standing up together! So please join us as we learn the lessons of history on the big screen!
Email StandUpKansasCity@gmail.com and RSVP now! Space is limited."
They aren't saying WHERE this screening will be held in their presser but I'm guessing that you have to RSVP in order to earn info about the location. So far returns for this movie have been paltry and the only theater that continues to show it is Cinemark on the Plaza.
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I wonder if anyone under 30 will show up.
ReplyDeleteDoubtful, but Paco will get his 30 posts from the Aryans.
ReplyDeleteThe movie Selma has very little to do with Martin Luther King Jr., and more to do with Hollywood trying to orchestrate how Ferguson and other future protest should be carried out!
ReplyDeleteAnd Oprah suggested this a week before Selma opened when she said that the Ferguson and U.S. wide spread protesting lacked leadership and a detailed plan as to what they wanted the outcome to be.
Then, the movie Selma is released! Oprah is a part of the Hollywood, Government controlled media that wants to transport this country back to 1950's mentality.
They want looting, cop killings, whites and blacks hating each other and fear! Movies like The Butler, 12 Years a Slave, The Help all have the racially tense material that takes one back to a time of hate and ignorance and racial intolerance.
There are about 35 of these types of movies coming out between 2015-16. One has to wonder why we are going backwards. It is all intentional. Don't fall for it people! Selma was clearly an attempt to race bate.
They didn't even bother trying to make Martin Luther King Jr. interesting in the movie! We learned nothing of his personal life, no humor, no depth of spirit, and there was absolutely NO chemistry between King and his wife in the movie.
The movie also introduces important characters and never explains to the viewer who they were! And, the movie has no one in it portraying the Rev. Jesse Jackson!
Why is this important? It is important because Jackson was a key part in Kings life and particularly his last days, up to the fatal shot on the balcony.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has said that while taking his last breath, Martin Luther King whispered to him to carry on for him and take his place.
There are those who have researched Kings death and there is very credible proof that the Rev. Jesse Jackson was a part of the plot to kill King! The reader is urged to look up Steve Cokely, and his very detailed video research on the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
The movie also skips past the deaths of Kennedy and Malcolm X, no footage, nothing! It's as if the movie Selma was made strictly to capitalize off the racially tense times we are experiencing in the U.S. now, and to play that one line about Ferguson in the rap song as the movie credits begin to roll!
I mean, as soon as the movie ends, we hear the word Ferguson! What kind of blatant mind control campaign was this!
And all this talk about who should be nominated for Oscars for this is also campaigning. They want you to start parroting the mess so you feel like you're in with the in-crowd that thinks the movie is hot! Don't fall for it.
Oprah is in the movie only for the purpose of putting butts in the theater seats! Just like Spike Lee in his Malcolm X movie strutting across the screen in the very first opening shot!
We see That Ham Oprah in Selma, the very first scene, first person, declaring, hey this is my movie! They never explain why Oprahs character was important in history or in this movie. She's there just for star power, like Marlon Brando in Superman.
I got a feeling that if Oprah could have gotten away with reciting the I Have a Dream Speech she would have done it!
A movie about the life of Selma Blair would be more interesting than Selma! And oh yes! When the viewer gets to the scene concerning the Selma march, you will be so angry at how they direct, wrote and act it out, you will want to scream!
In the end, you realize, the movie Selma, had nothing to do with Selma, or King!!!!!!!
It really will tic you off! If you want a superior, realistic, well acted, well written movie and performance about Martin Luther King, you need to get "King" staring Paul Winfield.
And again, even in this superior version, there is NO Jesse Jackson!!!!! Why?
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ReplyDeleteTake your idiot ass back to England. That's the 'white country' you're dreaming of. The Founding Fathers were hypocrites of the worst kind.
I think I'll watch American Sniper like every other American.
ReplyDeleteANY White person that EVER goes to the Cinemark Plaza -- for any show--
ReplyDeleteis a total douchebag.
Byron likes to lick Ruth. He is a creepy girl boy.
ReplyDeleteI disagree Byron, they weren't hypocrites. They were trying to erase the crap built by the British king and start something new. But as often as not most good ideas get changed into something else that is not the original intentions. Whatever problems you may see with the beginning of this country, I suggest you look to Andrew Jackson as the starting point.
ReplyDeleteByron you ignorant slut.
ReplyDeleteThere is no little irony in the fact that Selma and Birmingham are 3rd world shit hole cities, run by and inhabited by blacks, who, without white supervision fuck up asphalt.
Selma, sure, what a great outcome from the over rated, over hyped, under performing and disasterous Civil Rights Movement.
Lets all get our White Guilt on.
Shut the fuck up.
Just a note from a Irish caucasion, 749. When you can't communicate without the benefit of F-bombs and ridicule, 95% of rational people turn off.
ReplyDeleteI am not a prude when it comes to a well placed curse, but yours is not that.
So, when the mobile home falls off the cinder blocks later in the week, understand that they, the blocks, don't give a rip if you curse at them.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can take that to the bank!
Note to self: Stay off the Plaza the evening of FEB 8th.
ReplyDeleteThe movie was horrible. A total let down. Not at all what I expected and truthfully speaking it did not deserve an Oscar nod.
ReplyDeleteohhhhh....another movie for liberal mennonite faggots to cream their panties over!
ReplyDeleteWhatever out-of-towner 6:53.
ReplyDeleteCinemark Plaz is fine. Just avoid it Fri & Sat.
When they have porn movie night give me a shout.
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