Hollywood again changing history and perception. I figured before the reviews came out, there would be a racist narrative portrayed for the Republican Party. I will never see this movie as Oprah used "racism" to promote it. Bad form.
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Top 5 Inaccuracies in 'The Butler'
1. President Ronald Reagan was indifferent to the suffering of people of color.
2. The Democrats helped pass the Civil Rights Act: This is more of an inaccuracy by omission.
3. President Nixon dismissed black Americans--save for their votes:
How shocking that Hollywood would show Republicans in a bad light! LOL Thanks for posting this info. I was curious to know how the Republican Presidents were portrayed and you have confirmed my suspicions.
I remember reading one time that when Reagan was Governor of California he appointed more blacks, other minorities, and women to state positions than all of the other Governors before him. As President he appointed the first female to the Supreme Court. Of course he gets no credit for any of this from the mainstream media or intelligensia.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Hollywood again changing history and perception. I figured before the reviews came out, there would be a racist narrative portrayed for the Republican Party. I will never see this movie as Oprah used "racism" to promote it. Bad form.
Yes, it is the screenwriter's and director's bias at play here, but this is not news to me, for that is the way of the motion picture industry. It is not the first time history was changed, nor will it be the last.
The story is "based" on the life of Mr. Allen, which was "inspired" by an article in The Post.
All of this means that Mr. Allen lived and was a butler in the White House...all the rest is literary license and trying to reach a certain demographic.
And I agree...Oprah's antics only serve to destroy a desire to see the movie.
Yes, it is the screenwriter's and director's bias at play here, but this is not news to me, for that is the way of the motion picture industry. It is not the first time history was changed, nor will it be the last.
The story is "based" on the life of Mr. Allen, which was "inspired" by an article in The Post.
All of this means that Mr. Allen lived and was a butler in the White House...all the rest is literary license and trying to reach a certain demographic.
And I agree...Oprah's antics only serve to destroy a desire to see the movie.
Well said, Barb. Not only is Oprah destroying one woman's life, the shopgirl, to promote a movie, but Obama is destroying one man's life, Zimmerman, in order to further his racist, progressive, reparations narrative.
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The United States of Racism
The progressive agenda is advanced, its power obtained, by dividing people. That’s why so many have embraced the lower standard for this current president.
Luckily, fewer and fewer people are falling for this “equal-but-separate” deception. With each new day, there is more indifference to the politics of race. The president is sinking in the polls not because he’s black but because America does not accept his radical progressive agenda. Calling opponents racist will fall on deaf ears increasingly as time goes by because those ears aren’t deaf, they just know they’re being lied to.
Ruining the life of a rodeo clown won’t be the Berlin Wall moment for the politics of division. But that moment is coming. We see it in the polls, in the continued ratings drops for MSNBC. Before long, we will see it at the voting polls.
What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race
As president, in the same March 1983 speech in which he called the Soviet regime an “evil empire,” Reagan decried “the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice” in America. And at a reception for the National Council of Negro Women in July of that year, Reagan declared: “I’ve lived a long time, but I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t believe that prejudice and bigotry were the worst of sins.”
These are just a few examples of Reagan’s sensitivity to racial discrimination.
What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race
As president, in the same March 1983 speech in which he called the Soviet regime an “evil empire,” Reagan decried “the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice” in America. And at a reception for the National Council of Negro Women in July of that year, Reagan declared: “I’ve lived a long time, but I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t believe that prejudice and bigotry were the worst of sins.”
These are just a few examples of Reagan’s sensitivity to racial discrimination.
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