Mississippi Burning

In class, we watched a movie called Mississippi Burning. You can read more about the film here. In January we got different tasks about the movie. Here is my text.

In this text i am going to discuss whether white people in the south hated all blacks, though they were inferior.

First of all, I think that many people in the South were manipulated by the Ku-Klux-Klan and the sheriff to hate all the black people and think they were inferior. A good example in the film is agent Anderson’s lead: “Down here, things are different; here, they believe that some things are worth killing for”. This shows how far the racism have gone, and nobody would have thought this without being manipulated.

Furthermore, I also think that some people in the South really hated the black and thought they were inferior. In the film, I think Mayor Tilman was one of these: “Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture and a colored culture. Now, that’s the way it always has been, and that’s the way it always will be”. I think Tilman ment this when he said it on the court, because he gave the blacks much harder punishment then the white.

As a conclusion, I do not disagree with this claim. Quite many hated the blacks, but some must have thought difference. If all whites in the South hated blacks Mayoir Tilman would have right with his conclusion. Who would help the black people ad their struggle against racism and civil rights?