‘Booker’s Place’
The Bridge, a group organized with the intent to try to somehow help heal the old wounds of segregation and racism from Greenwood’s past, received an advance copy of the film “Booker’s Place,” and a few of us have watched it. I had to watch it twice, even though watching a story like this is similar to watching the proverbial “train wreck” movie. You already know the story.
This documentary film has in common a thread that runs through almost everything you see, read or hear about segregation times in Mississippi. Almost all the white people are portrayed as rabid racists and haters. All the black people are portrayed as hapless, innocent victims, exploited and beaten down by the white devils.
Anyone can understand, of course, that a story that would include many white people who did not fit this narrow portrayal of those times won’t get much air time or win any awards in the film festivals where documentaries are shown.
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