Summary Of The Film 'Two Towns Of Jasper'
The overall message of the “Two Towns of Jasper” movie was to show then even when times get hard between two different races, when they work together they will be able to help each other out. beven if it is hard or a change for some people. This message is shown in the documentary because the whites felt sorry for James's death, while the blacks felt like it was a racist situation to have lived through. In order to heal away the blacks pains the whites agreed on unify with the blacks to help them out. At 23 minutes a white guy in the documentary says,” sometimes whites will have to bend over backwards.” This again shows that even whites have to go out of their way to heal the blacks. In the movie a person asked a black lady what would she do if they did not do anything to the members of the KKK that killed James she replied and
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Even though the whites felt bad about people from their own community having to be sentenced to death, they still deserve their punishment. Both races knew and felt that segregation was not something that was good and should not exist. In the documentary, a white person said,” MLK holiday does not do much to me, but they should of not deleted it.” This shows that whites knew that segregation is wrong even if it does not affect their own race. This also shows that the whites do not believe segregation should exist because even though they did not get along with the blacks they still felt like they deserved there holiday as much as rodeo day. Also, we can see that blacks do not like segregation and do not believe it should exist because an African American said, “We are born segregated and we are going to be buried segregated that’s the biggest slap on the face.” This shows that blacks do not like segregation they are born into it and will die the
Even though the whites felt bad about people from their own community having to be sentenced to death, they still deserve their punishment. Both races knew and felt that segregation was not something that was good and should not exist. In the documentary, a white person said,” MLK holiday does not do much to me, but they should of not deleted it.” This shows that whites knew that segregation is wrong even if it does not affect their own race. This also shows that the whites do not believe segregation should exist because even though they did not get along with the blacks they still felt like they deserved there holiday as much as rodeo day. Also, we can see that blacks do not like segregation and do not believe it should exist because an African American said, “We are born segregated and we are going to be buried segregated that’s the biggest slap on the face.” This shows that blacks do not like segregation they are born into it and will die the