Posted on 12/15/2014 7:04:09 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Parties and protests dont typically overlap, but the Selma cast made an exception and a statement on Sunday night following the films Manhattan premiere. At one point during the otherwise splashy festivities, director Ava DuVernay took to the steps of the New York Public Library with actors David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Wendell Pierce, Omar Dorsey, John Lavelle, Stephan James, Kent Faulcon, Lorraine Toussaint, Andre Holland, Tessa Thompson and Colman Domingo, donning I Cant Breathe T-shirts over their partywear and raising their arms in the dont shoot pose.
It was not just an unusually sobering photo op, but also a direct acknowledgment of the eerie timing of Paramounts civil rights drama, with its scenes of organized protest and its urgent plea for justice and reform. The premiere was held the same weekend that more than 25,000 men and women marched through Manhattan, in the largest protest the city has seen since a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner.
The pictures timeliness is undeniable, said Toussaint, who plays the civil rights activist Amelia Boynton. There are no accidents, she said.
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The latter two threatened, by word or action, to kill. Garner was selling smokes.
How to react to these actors speaking out? I wonder if they will acknowledge the way policies pushed by Democrats in the last 40 years have contributed to the deterioration of the family--especially black families.
The Democrats have perpetuated true racism by affirmative action, quotas, soft bigotry, expansion of the welfare state, abortion, restriction of school choice, etc.
I wonder, truly, if any of these folks have talked to or read Star Parker, Walter Williams, Allen West, Thomas Sowell, Mia Love, Lloyd Marcus, Crystal Wright, or Erika Harold.
I got a T-Shirt for them... I cant buy a ticket!
...who have now been heard of for both the first and last time in their lives.
The I Cant Breathe supporters never go to the movies anyway ,unless they can sneak in
Add another movie to the list of ones I won’t ever watch.
Mary Jo says “Thank you” for the real truth.
they get no awards, no metions at last awards gathering ... wah, wah, wah!
Maybe we should come up with T-Shirts with what the thousands of innocent people murdered by young blacks might might have said as they were being shot, stabbed and raped.
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