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Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, 1602

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

10. Mississippi Burning

The film itself stressed the important of equality, and the whole superiority complex people are struggling to comprehend recently. The detectives in the film had treated the case just as they would any other, not getting hung up on the rumors of the two boys being pro-equality, as well as to include the black boy in the tally of those who were missing. While on the other hand natives to the state of Mississippi would only acknowledge the two white boys as "faking it" and laughing away up in the north at "us southerners", and not even giving the time of day to the other young boy, all of white stirring up a commotion over feelings of intrusion. This film can be see as almost a parallel of modern day Ferguson and  the entire situation being summarized into the conflict of white vs black, when in reality if we looked beyond that, we might be able to settle out the issues at hand a bit better. People have a tendency to feel the need to ignite a personal spark deep down inside and apply themselves into the the problems at hand, it's not entirely wrong to do so, but it should not all be based upon a single persons feeling on an issue, and bettering only themselves.

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