And since we are talking about movies, after all: the whole thing I’m kicking around here is how movies have been so relentless in their quest to sanitize race relations in America that it has almost become its own genre entirely. Period pieces, usually. Some story about a time when violent racism was permeating every corner of a community, except for the one where a Black person and a white person learned to get along by toppling the odds and seeing the shared humanity in each other after being forced to share proximity because of work or love or an altogether accident. These movies don’t
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