Saw Blackklansmen today

[kimbutgar]

At the end I started to cry. It hurt me so much to see the hate in this country.

The theater was silent for a good 30 seconds.

Did anyone else have outraged, anger or sad reactions?

[vercetti2021]

1. I saw it

I didn't speak. I was so pissed off.

[brush]

2. I saw it. Same reaction in the theater.

[Hoyt]

3. Will definitely see it. Grew up in South in 50s and 60s, saw the hatred live and

still know people like that. They love them some trump.

[Lint Head]

5. I'm with you. I grew up in S.C. in the 50s and 60s also.

I was called a N lover because I spoke out so much about the racism I saw. It was not unusual to be driving down a rural road and see a KKK rally and a cross burning.

[Hoyt]

6. I bet we had very similar experiences. Heck, we had a governor in 1960/70s who rose to fame

because he chased all Black people out of his restaurant with a gun or pick handle because he did not want to serve them.

I remember segregated schools, water fountains, restrooms, seating areas in many places, lunch counter and the protests that evolved, etc. I still know people -- wouldn't call them friends -- who consider those the good ole days and probably love trump. I do not like what we're seeing now, either. It's a little different, but just as ugly and wrong.

[Lint Head]

7. Yes. Most of what you mentioned I experienced. But not the governor rising to fame. When I first got

my drivers license it was common, when driving down a rural road in the evening, to see a KKK rally or two off in a field burning a cross.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Segregated water fountains...

Two fountains still on the grounds of the State Capitol in Raleigh, NC. Side by side. Probably had signs on them at one time for Whites or Colored only.

My dog and I walk here every morning.

Saw the movie last week. Same reaction in the theater. Applause at the end of the film. Best thing Spike Lee has done in quite some time. Powerful film.

[femmedem]

4. Silence, then applause when I saw it.

Then we were all quiet again as we walked out.

Part of Spike Lee's genius in the film was to make us not just re-experience what we've seen on the news these last few years, but to see the long history that preceded these events, and the sense of hope, back in the 1970's, that it would be different by now.