[ SECRET POST #3220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3220 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was just SO happy to see a movie about black people/civil rights that didn't have a godamn white savior in it that I wasn't too worried about LBJ's portrayal (which I don't think was all that negative anyway).

Its interesting to me to see how up in arms people got over it though, much more then then most of them ever do over Hollywood's whitewashing/white savior obsession.

[tree_and_leaf]

No, I didn't think it was that unfair to LBJ, either, tbh. Johnson's aide remembers the meeting going differently, but it more or less tallies with with how MLK recounted it, and the film is, after all, told from MLK's perspective.

My take on the way LBJ was portrayed is that it showed him as having good intentions to help those in poverty and for the extension of civil rights, but that he was also convinced that he knew better than anyone else how that could be achieved - and that he was irritated by people disrupting the strategy he'd worked out. It doesn't show him as a monster. It shows him as an astute, pragmatic politician who liked wheeler-dealering and working the system, and who wasn't comfortable with direct action tactics. The film disagrees with him, but it doesn't, IMO, suggest that he's a terrible person, just very divorced from the reality the activists face.