The “Underneath.” What’s really going on?! Here is a documentary, a part of series, that reexamines major events, unearthing material that will make you think.
Part I: The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Perhaps you’ve never asked yourself who, why or how, never questioned what happened. Maybe you just don’t care.
Some view this event as the turning point in American history. Speaking of history; long live Howard Zinn!!!!!
The AfroSpear presents: Evidence of Revision.
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I must admit I couldn’t get into this documentary, but I will make a comment about what I thought about the assination.
I couldn’t get into the documentary, 5 min into it and that screeching sound bothered my ears.
I never cared about one or two gunman, never thought it was Castro or the Soviets, but thought it was the “Good old boys of Texas” who ordered the assassination of Kennedy. Living in the south at the time, you couldn’t help but pick up on the visceral attitudes white people had toward Kennedy, because not only being Catholic (big deal with Southern White protestants at that time), he appeared to be sympathetic to Blacks. Preserving segregation meant more than foreign policy.
My thoughts confirmed, when casually, my white supervisor said she was glad Kennedy was killed. She tried to back track when she realized she now had a Black employee.
You should check out the vid, Hathor. It is and it isn’t about Kennedy: its about the hypocrisy, the compartmentalized thinking, the denial and the links between JFK, MLK, RFK, the Panthers, Malcolm, Co-Intelpro, etc, etc. Its also fascinating because there is so much unseen/rarely seen footage of crazy stuff that was said during that time.
I tried to get engaged in this. It is not well presented. So far after 20 min. there is nothing here I haven’t seen or heard. I’m old.
This is off topic, but this post led me to think about my generations voice, which seems to be lost or put in the time capsule with the “I have a dream speech”. It not that the solutions of the 50’s would be applicable now, but the wealth of knowledge that resides about how the politics of race, the cold war, communism, government infiltration and the FBI effected Black people then and now, could give a different and enlightening perspective. It was disappointing to me, that when John Lewis spoke out about the McCain-Palin campaign race baiting, there seem to be barely a blip in the Black blogosphere.
I like its obliqueness. To me, it respects the viewer’s intelligence more than the typical, orderly presentation. Its like a poem, more than a chronological recitation of what happened. I like poems…but everybody’s taste is different.