"Mississippi Burning": Cultural Heritage, Bone-Deep Denial And Carte Blanche To Kill

Alan: Recently, I watched "Mississippi Burning," an extraordinary treatment of a historical event starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe.

"Mississippi Burning"
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning

"Mississippi Burning's" treatment of "southern heritage" as justification for racist suppression-and-slaughter should be viewed by everyone, particularly those who use "heritage" as justification for refusing to undertake contextualized learning and who use that refusal as carte blanche to wreak mayhem and murder. 

"Mississippi Burning"

Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mississippi_burning

Agent Bird: I don't understand why he did it. He wasn't in on it. He wasn't even Klan.

Agent Ward (Willem Dafoe): Mr. Bird, (the mayor) was guilty. Anyone's guilty who lets these things happen and pretends like it isn't. No, he was guilty all right. Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger. Maybe we all are.

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