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Monday, October 25, 2004
When they find you, they'll retrieve you Racial overload. In my calm class, we just finished watching "Ghosts of Mississippi", which is all about a black civil rights leader who was shot in the 1960s, and how they try to re-open the case later on in the 1990's. And now in English, we just started watching "Mississippi Burning" as a prelude to our novel study, "To Kill a Mockingbird." "Mississippi Burning" is horrible. It's disgusting. I want to throw up when I watch it. I almost want to cry. It's just so so so bad. I don't know..maybe it's because I've had to watch and discuss so many movies dealing with racism in the past month (We watched "The Long Walk Home" in English about a month ago, too - another one dealing with black civil rights during the 60's.) - but I can't take it anymore. It's awful. To see people treating other people with such blatant hatred so often lately..it's affecting me in ways I never expected any kind of movie to ever affect me. And that paired with all of the reading I've been doing regarding the war in Iraq and the genocide in Sudan and all of that other nonsense...holy. All of a sudden it feels as though the world has gone to absolute garbage. Why is all of this happening. And why can't it be stopped? What can I do? I feel like I want to throw up. Or something. I don't know. Today I came home from school feeling so frustrated and mad and exhausted. Ewwww. Hailey spazzed at 7:51:00 p.m. ***
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