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It was black history month. My friend told me about this movie that was really good called Mississippi Burning. “Brace yourself because it’s really sad.” I told him ok and after school I went home did my homework and looked the movie up on the internet and they didn’t have it. Then I went to on demand and found it. I sat there and watched the movie and it made me so mad and angry. It was so sad the way they beat and killed those people for no reason. Being that the movie was also based on a true story angered me even more. After I saw that movie I started to not like white folks. It wasn’t just the movie that made me feel this way; it was all the racism I received by white folks thru my life. I felt like why I should talk to them or even like them after what they done to my kind of people for so many years and also because of their attitude towards me personally.

Mississippi Burning is about three civil rights workers that are hilled killed. An investigation is launched to find the civil rights workers. Two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) are put on the case. They encounter the hatred and violence that is in Mississippi with the investigation which included the burning crosses, lynching, and the KKK. Mississippi Burning is a very powerful movie. For a while I didn’t like white people because I felt why I should like a person who treated blacks like so brutal. I was just filled with anger and hate. Then one day I thought to myself, “Why don’t you like white people?” I told myself that I was basically acting the same way they were acting towards black folks and I was basically acting like them. That was wrong. Everybody should be treated the same no matter what race they are or what color of skin they have.

I still occasionally watch the movie but it doesn’t change the way I think of people anymore. I still have that straight open minded mind. Overall the movie really taught me how racist white people were and how some still are. In the movie they killed black folks for no reason but because of the color of their skin. I can’t really pinpoint on any other changes that came with the movie but I know that I felt like a different person. I looked at the world and the people in different. Even I do I still have racist actions put upon me I just say those are ignorant white people that are stupid and need to know theres no difference between blacks and whites. I could do the same thing you could do. If none of you ever seen the movie then you really should take time out and go watch it because it shows in detail how blacks and other whites who supported the blacks where beat and killed for no reason.