jamesbond wrote:Hey check out this movie trailer for the film "Chi-Raq" it stars Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack. The movie came out in 2015. The main theme of the movie is about all the violence in the city of Chicago and what some of the women decide to do about it.
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Stunning.
Hits me hard. An exile from the US, yet I still miss so many of those I loved to hate back in the day. Blacks who menaced, yet the Black man who taught me to to box and defend myself against bullies. Jews who yammered for the Viet Cong, yet Jews who loved Mathematics, and argued from truth. Whites who sneered and smirked if you weren't exactly the same as them, yet Whites with backbones of steel.
I guess we are all soiled angels.
"God Bless America."
My Dad grew up in Detroit, he brought his family out of there, as the poor immigrant side went badder and Blacker. So this Chi-Town stuff seems to me somehow familiar in a way.
And yet.
And yet.
And yet I feel more kinship with these people than I do with the Suburbans. Because I knew a few growing up? Because of the Georgia upbringing? Who knows.
BTW, brilliant idea, remake of "Lysistrata" in Black America. Was that Aristophanes? Been so long since my Georgia upbringing, with the classical education and all, I forget.
Will def try to catch this flick on Amazon.
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