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Detroit the Movie
I’ve just watched a prescreening of the movie Detroit. And…I’m…I’m left with all sorts of feelings. I’ve watched these historical movies of the plight of black people before and while “those slave” movies made feel a sort of sadness it was always easy to dismiss those feelings as “that was a long time ago.” But Detroit… Detroit was 50 years ago, almost exactly to the day and I felt as if I was watching the present day news. It wasn’t 1967 it was 2017. The tears came without me even realizing it. I felt angry and sick and…and… traumatized. It was a lot in to take in in 2 hours.…