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Looking Up: Comet passes by the Pleiades Suzette Martinez Standring: Chance advice was eerie Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs Business NEWS NOW Our View: A matter of survival ... Posters about missing teen will be distributed ... Brammo bought by Polaris ... Our View: A matter of survival ... Posters about missing teen will be distributed ... Brammo bought by Polaris ... MOVIE REVIEW 'Selma' struggle remains relevant today Comment By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Jan. 15, 2015 @ 12:01 am By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Jan. 15, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Social News Selma; 127 min; Rated PG-13  The thing to understand going in is that “Selma” is a docudrama. The events that are presented — and they are a powerful portrayal of a moment in America’s history regarding the Civil Rights Movement — are viewed through a wide lens. And though every frame of the film concerns the inordinate risk taken by Martin Luther King Jr. and all those involved in the struggle for equality, “Selma”is not a character study of any one individual; rather it is a quasi-fictional account of a period in 1965 when our government and the nation were reminded that though our Constitution insured equal rights for all its citizens, millions were denied the right to vote, based on the color of their skin and nothing more. This denial was an insidious, collective attempt by Southern states to disenfranchise a people for reasons involving reflexive bigotry and prejudice and discrimination that had their roots in slavery and Jim Crow, a tensile thread of repression dating back to slavery. These became realities that finally could not be ignored. Although the government tried. It was King and his Southern Leadership Conference that decided that the time had come to march and protest and insist on full enfranchisement, no matter the cost. They had quickly learned that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unable to alter the resistance by Southern registrars to allow blacks to register (poll tax and literacy tests were still very much in place). And therein is the essence of “Selma.” The film focuses on three marches that originated in Selma, Alabama. The first, on March 7, 1965, was to be from Selma to Montgomery and came to be known as the bloody Sunday march. Some 600 nonviolent, unarmed marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and beaten by Alabama State Troopers, using batons and tear gas. What was absent on that day was any protection by the federal government. Millions of Americans watched this event unfold on national television, to include President Lyndon Johnson, who insisted, to King himself, that full enfranchisement was, at that moment, indeed a bridge too far. The irony of Johnson’s position, his withholding of protection in Selma, was that he was conducting a war in Southeast Asia in the name of freedom. King believed that now was the time and would not be deterred. And so a second march was organized; this time thousands from across the country showed up. Whites and blacks. The outcome was far different. A third march took place on March 21, in the wake of the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, which outlawed any form of discrimination and affirmed the right of all citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Johnson said to the country: “Their cause must be our cause because it is not just negroes but really all of us who must overcome the gripping legacy of bigotry and injustice.” “Selma”is a graphic reminder of what was required to achieve the rights so explicitly outlined in our Constitution. To overcome Jim Crow, to struggle against deeply held attitudes and entrenched racial prejudice seemed all but impossible. This film reminds us that the ripples of slavery were then and still are ever with us. And that is what makes “Selma”profoundly relevant today. Call it profiling. Call it intolerance based only on the color of one’s skin. But we have still not freed ourselves from a bondage that still shapes our views and reactions on both sides — read the headlines of the last two months from Ferguson to New York City. Post-racial America eludes us all. That truth is what makes this film worth watching.       By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Jan. 15, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Your privacy is important, read our privacy policy. © Copyright 2015 Local Media Group, Inc. 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