[hatfieldmccoy]

Yo Charity, what do you do in your spare time when your not being beaten and whipped by your white masters. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the fact that the black man was brought to this country has not served either race well.

[elhombrelibre]

Her opinion is an interesting perspective. I'd initially thought why does it matter what color a viewer is since we're all human, yet she's right that the whip was a weapon of punishment in slavery. And today, the critics of the movie act as if scourging was never used in history. They seem ignorant too of how much torture happens today in the world or how much has happened in the history of the world. Those of us who believe in Jesus as God believe the account in Gibson's movie is as close as we've ever seen to reality, and yet still only a movie.

[Hank Rearden]

So what do we call a white guy from Johannesburg living in the Bronx?

[gonzo]

Thanks for posting this, buff.............FRegards

[McGavin999]

She's right, and today in Africa Christians are still being exposed to horrors we can only imagine. Whether we like to admit it or not, blacks DID suffer the whip so I can understand their reaction to this movie.

This woman is not race baiting, she's telling it like it was.

[liberallarry]

The best review of Gibson's film was written by an African-American - Colby King in the Washington Post.

[Puddleglum]

I think it's an important thing to remind the West that a life of suffering is still a life and is loved by God because it is from God and was made sensible through Christ. I think Gibson's film does this. Jesus never said, "Blessed is the society that has no sufering." That was the mantra of the grotesque inverted logic of Bergen-Belsen and is the mantra of our modern world view of perfect people and "life with dignity."