What have I learnt from watching Mississippi Burning?
I have learnt that the fact that Barack Obama could, a black, become president of America, and even the winner of a nobel prize award, was no easy feat. Seeing how people treated the blacks last time, labelling them as "Niggers", set loose to pillage and burn, while the police stand at one side, having front row seats to the injustice being inflicted to the blacks.
I have learnt and seen, how harsh the whites were on the blacks, treating them like dirt, and the Mississippi, even the law isn't just, as seen when the judge lightens the punishment of four whites for burning down a black man's house, with the reason that these black men were, "Dirty, unhygenic...etc" and therefore provoked the whites to do such a thing. What on earth is wrong with this people.
Watching this has also allowed me to appreciate the racial harmony in Singapore, and serves as a reminder that we should not take this for granted, and achieving racial harmony was not an accident, not by chance, but by the work of many people, and constant tolerance in the society.
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