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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
What an amazing moving!!
I would have to give this movie a 10.5 only because it actually made me (a grown man at 30) cry on my couch at the end when those girls ran back to their mother after trekking their own "trail of tears" for over 1,500 miles back home. This movie reminds me of my grandmother Ataska who turned 101 August 10th 2006. She is still alive today and we cherish her. Ataska was born in Idabel, Oklahoma back in 1905, but as I did my research on her, I learned that Oklahoma didn't become a state until 1906. So my grandmother Ataska was born in what is called Indian Territory. She was born on a route near a reservation camp. The argument in the family (every Christmas and Thanksgiving)is that grandpa who passed away years earlier said to the family that she is a descendant of the BlackFoot Tribe. I say she might be Seminole. But she is half African, Native-American and European and was possibly named Ataska after a popular name for a Thoroughbred Mare. But the story of Rabbit-Proof Fence just shows the parallel of what happened to my grandmother's family as they were both exterminated and raped. But still survived the odds. The two girls (although I couldn't tell their sex from their odd features) told the story with a stellar approach. I am glad that I caught this film on IFC. I learn everyday about the differences of people. I don't hold any grudges against any white dude because of the past. I think these stories need to be told so that we can move on from it. Most of my friends are of a different race than I. Although they want to keep calling me an African American, I would rather be called Black American because I don't have any ties to Africa. I feel more at home with the Natives of America because of my grandmother's heritage. It is amazing how grannie at 101 is still alive today and is considered our princess warrior. We always give her a birthday crown for her birthday because she is our Queen Bee!!
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Shamari
Man and Boy (1971)
This film, Man and Boy, should inspire every fatherless child as it did me!!
I find that it is very important that the American Society will continue to show these types of films where Black men are the leading voice and to show that Blacks did want to be employed even during Westward Expansion time when governments chose not to employ Black men. To show that once a Black man was willing to stand behind his child and show the child what's right from wrong and to stick up for his belongings that will be taken from them even after they have fought long and hard in the Civil War (just to be called a "Nigger Blue-Belly" and denied homestead) is long overdue. If you steal my horse, shouldn't I get it back! If you look at most films that expose the truth of Westward Expansion you will learn that the Native American men and the African American men were not allowed to ride up on horses into town and talk to any women because they were looked upon as savages to White men with homesteads. Plain and simple the women were for White men only. But, this film shows the opposite and it is by no means a tool to pull any race card. Long live Bill Cosby!!!!!!
S.