oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I often fall asleep when watching average movies.
If I can't sleep at night I go to my chair, put on a movie, fall fast asleep. No Problem.
But that didn't happen last night.
I record any films that are on freeview telly, and early this morning I selected a film, pulled a blanket 'round myself, and settled back for a good snooze.
That didn't happen.
The film was called 'The Hate You Give', a story about a 16 yrs old black girl who witnessed her life-long friend (a boy) get shot by a cop during a traffic stop. The boy, standing outside his car during the stop, reached inside for his hairbrush and got shot a number of times because of that.
This incident was cause for the girl, her friends, family and neighbours to be thrown in to the chaos of politics, some (but not much) justice, bust up relationships, stress, trouble and worse.
I watched it all through, but the image that caused this thread and OP was where, during a demonstration march because of this incident, there was a BLM placard being held high in that scene.
I reached for my mobile, googled 'The Hate You Give', and there it was immediately, a film released in October 2018. Now I never had heard of or seen 'BLM' before Mr Floyd was murdered; I thought that his murder was the what initiated the BLM movement. Obviously I saw that plenty of times afterwards, in my neighbourhood, on telly, all over.....
Damn........ I wonder how many times these killings, manslaughters and murders have happened before?
Please don't exclaim at my ignorance, please just post up about incidents that you know about.
If I can't sleep at night I go to my chair, put on a movie, fall fast asleep. No Problem.
But that didn't happen last night.
I record any films that are on freeview telly, and early this morning I selected a film, pulled a blanket 'round myself, and settled back for a good snooze.
That didn't happen.
The film was called 'The Hate You Give', a story about a 16 yrs old black girl who witnessed her life-long friend (a boy) get shot by a cop during a traffic stop. The boy, standing outside his car during the stop, reached inside for his hairbrush and got shot a number of times because of that.
This incident was cause for the girl, her friends, family and neighbours to be thrown in to the chaos of politics, some (but not much) justice, bust up relationships, stress, trouble and worse.
I watched it all through, but the image that caused this thread and OP was where, during a demonstration march because of this incident, there was a BLM placard being held high in that scene.
I reached for my mobile, googled 'The Hate You Give', and there it was immediately, a film released in October 2018. Now I never had heard of or seen 'BLM' before Mr Floyd was murdered; I thought that his murder was the what initiated the BLM movement. Obviously I saw that plenty of times afterwards, in my neighbourhood, on telly, all over.....
Damn........ I wonder how many times these killings, manslaughters and murders have happened before?
Please don't exclaim at my ignorance, please just post up about incidents that you know about.
