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@ MickBurke
2025-02-15 21:31:54
It's fascinating to watch In the Heat of the Night, listening to the commentary. At one point the director Norman Jewison, who's work I like a lot, notes that we now have "a more democratic nation in respect to race relations" and bemoans the individual and people not being a part of something.
The sad thing he seems to miss is that the south was ABSOLUTLY democratic: The MAJORITY decided that blacks had no rights and that was that.
In contrast if you 'focus on the individual' you see that EVERY individual has rights, no matter HOW MANY people don't want them to.