12 Years a Slave didn't depict the 'happy slaves', critic complains
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...s-9184913.html
PROPAGANDA IS NOT ‘REALITY’ OR ‘TRUTH’
http://spectator.org/articles/56909/...r-‘truth
Yes, Marxist-Leninist Hollyweird directors like to portray slavery as "bad" and "cruel" but lets hear about slavery from an actual slave:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...slavery/58678/
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...s-9184913.html
PROPAGANDA IS NOT ‘REALITY’ OR ‘TRUTH’
If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr McQueen does not want us to hear about it.
Yes, Marxist-Leninist Hollyweird directors like to portray slavery as "bad" and "cruel" but lets hear about slavery from an actual slave:
White folks, I want to see the boats passing up and down the Alabammy river and hear the slaves singing at their work. I want to see dawn break over the black ridge and the twilight settle over the place spreading an orange hue. I want to walk the paths through the woods and see the rabbits and the birds and the frogs at night...
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