Just Erica: "...Debaters isn't about a recent incident. It's about a time in America's history when blacks in the South were thought of as incapable of holding a conversation, incapable of learning, incapable of having intelligence, incapable of thinking for themselves...you know, things you think they are ALL about now..."
Erica, I take everyone one on one.
I don't judge all people by the actions of a few.
I do, however, judge those who commit atrocities against others, and I judge those whose ideology is pathological. I happen to have lived in the South which you mention, and know for a fact that during those times the inner cities were not "urban war zones", people could go to sleep at night without locking their doors and windows, there were not large areas where every house and apartment had iron burglar bars on the doors and windows, there were far less Negroes doing time in Federal Prisons, and most black children learned the words "Yes, Ma'am" from their parents instead of "Me b yo' n*gg* Yo' f*** you, Ho'!"
No...it was not a perfect world then, but it was better for all concerned than the current "Fast Lane to Namibia". Today one out of four Negro men are in prison, and possibly up to 50% of all Negroes in the U.S. are infected with the AIDS virus, out of wedlock children are standard fare, and businesses are forced by a tyrannical government to hire unfit and unqualified people who can't count change and who can't even speak clear English. And yes, the scriptwriters are more than happy to turn out more crap to make viewers "feel good", rather than turn out quality work which inspires viewers to set goals and work hard to achieve them. And, just for the record, I am "judgemental" towards each and all equally. Young blacks would benefit far more from film biographies of Dr. Walter Williams or Dr. Alan Keyes, than they ever will watching race-based fantasies with agendas.