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To: bentway who wrote (247052)	3/10/2014 1:00:40 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543020

I think for students Emmet Till is more powerful because it is closer in time. It's easy to dismiss slavery- it happened a long time ago for the US (although it's still going on elsewhere in the world). Women were treated horribly as well at that time, as were children. It was a bad time to be anything but an adult white male. The Till case, though, happened in (supposedly) more "enlightened" times- and I think students can relate more to it. The Till case, as I'm sure you know, had a profound impact on MLK, the Freedom Riders, and all the many good people who helped to change the South forever. I probably won't see the movie because I know slavery was horrible, and I don't need to see a movie about it to drive that point home. I don't see movies about the holocaust anymore for the same reason. Hitler was horrible, and the holocaust was terrible- and after sitting through Shoah I didn't think I ever needed to see another movie about the subject. I've made a few exceptions to that rule for novel movies that covered new material from the era- but in general, I don't need to see brutality, however beautifully filmed, to know I'm against it.