How the movie distorted history.
The Left always has to whitewash (almost literally, in this case) the past.
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How the movie distorted history.
The Left always has to whitewash (almost literally, in this case) the past.
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LBJ gets the George Zimmerman treatment.
It shouldn’t have been necessary to lie about LBJ to tell an inspiring story about Selma, but they clearly believed it was. I guess it all depends on what thoughts and ideals they wanted to inspire.
I mean, not only how do you believe a single thing with respect to “biopic” or “historical narrative” to come out of Hollywood, how do you believe a single thing from anyone endorsing this movie as historical realism?
I mean, not only was President Johnson not opposing this, he was giving Dr. King pointers on Godwinized politics, to go out and look for the worst possible example of voter suppression and plaster the media with this as being “typical.” From the transcript, I am not sure Dr. King was comfortable with this “activist” approach. I mean, you have President Johnson lecturing, even hectoring Dr. King on how to conduct hard-ball politiccs.
Dunno, maybe people defending this movie are more the heirs of President Johnson than of Dr. King.
LBJ was speaking for the benefit of the tape recorders that he controlled. He also called blacks n****rs on multiple occasions.
Let’s not forget LBJ great history of speaking out in support for civil rights for Blacks and against segregation as a senator and in private. That’s right, he didn’t. Nevermind.
Through centuries of slavery, discrimination, and persecution, American blacks survived in large part due to the strength of their families and their faith. LBJ’s Great Society seriously undermined black families. If offered free money for women to have babies but not if the father was living in the household. In the end, had LBJ turned to the KKK and asked them to draw up the welfare programs with the specific goal of harming blacks, they couldn’t have done a better job. I do give LBJ this credit: with his Great Society, he was able to deliver over 90% of the black vote to the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. That was a political masterstroke. Further, the expanded government bureaucracy created also became reliable votes for the Democrats.
It could have been a great movie but it kinda sucked. Dear White People was much better on race relations and more relevant to our times.
No one should be surprised that Selma wasn’t historically accurate because no movie ever is. The omission of party affiliation was troubling though because it perpetuates stereotypes and scapegoats Republicans for the sins of Democrats, which you think a civil rights movie would try to avoid.
Boo Freakin hoo. Historical Accuracy wasn’t important when they were nominating that excrement from Oliver Stone called Nixon for multiple Academy Awards. That’s o.k., but when it’s a liberal Democrat who isn’t being portrayed completely accurate, then all hell breaks lose. The Johnson mafia comes out and has him doing everything short of giving the “I Have a Dream Speech”. The Academy has no problem awarding Michael Moore Academy Awards for his films, (I refuse to call them documentaries, because there as much fiction as James and the Giant Peach). Maybe it isn’t historical accurate in it’s depiction of LBJ, but so what, it’s a movie, not a documentary. I’ve heard individuals involved in the organization of The March on Washington whose version is closer to the movies version.
I’m more upset that documentaries, history books, biographies and history textbooks portray Johnson signing of civil rights legislation as some great martyrdom that cost Democrats the south, that Republicans won the south overwhelmingly with a “Southern Strategy”, and other myths and lies to show the Democrats as the good guys and Republicans as the bad guys.