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If someone's opinions are different from yours it doesn't necessarily make them wrong or stupid. Just like if someone's skin is a different color it doesn't make them wrong or stupid.
Sure the South has a racist past and racial issues to overcome, but I plan on being part of the solution, not part of the problem.
By the way, the largest chapter of the KKK in it's heyday was in Cincinnati. Slavery did not begin, as you say, in the American South. It's been around a couple thousand years. And you know, in my city I hear of more instances of black on black or black on white violence. Although that observation is more a reflection of the demographics of my city. Black citizens outnumber white citizens about 3 to 1.
You also failed to mention police beatings of black men in Los Angeles, or Mark Furman's infamous racial slurs or the white supremacist groups in the great white North. But I guess you wouldn't think those people are racist, because heck, they're not in the South.
I have a different opinion than you. I don't believe racism all started in the South. Racism is not a Southern problem. It's not an American problem. It's a human problem. And if you don't believe me there are problably some people in Bosnia, the Gaza strip, or Tibet who could make us all weep in shame.
The movie is about more than just a father's revenge. It was also about whether killing someone can ever be justified.
But, then again, I'm from the South so I must be really ignorant and stupid and not worth treating with respect.
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