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To: epicure who wrote (247023)	3/10/2014 12:53:56 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542941

I took the time to watch the Emmett Till PBS documentary, and while it's horrible and shocking, it's not in the same league as "12 Years a Slave". They depict different eras, the Till documentary depicts the Jim Crow era post-emancipation in 1955, where "12 Years a Slave" depicts actual slavery in the 1840's, where black people were considered property with the civil rights of a mule. What happened to Emmett Till and worse happened daily to those slaves. There were no trials, because no wrong had been done. White people had the right to kill their mule, or their slaves, and do whatever they felt like doing to them, if they felt like it. It broke no laws, and no one raised any questions, because slaves were just personal property, not human beings. Catch the film. It didn't win "Best Picture" just because of white guilt.