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Monday, February 22, 2016

"Race"

I went to see the movie "Race", about Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's a feel-good movie for the whole family.

The actor I liked best was Barnaby Metschurat as Joseph Goebbels. Every time he's on screen it's Isiah 24:4 - "The earth dries up and wilts; the world withers and wilts; the heavens wither away with the earth."

I was startled when a letter was introduced from the head of the NAACP, Walter White. Sure enough, WW was the guy:
While he was a highly esteemed activist and a powerful champion of anti-lynching legislation, he was occasionally rebuffed in the black community by those who mistook him for a white outsider. In his autobiography, A Man Called White, he recalls the day he accidentally stepped on the toes of another black man on a subway platform. The man lashed out bitterly, saying, “Why don’t you look where you’re going? You white folks are always trampling on colored people.”

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