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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh ffs. Give it a rest.  If Bill Moyers got his feelings hurt too bad.[/quote]

It's basically every historian of the period who's complained about the distortion.  It's one thing to fill in details with fictional material but to make LBJ the villain when he was the driving force for civil rights legislation is pretty bad.  That's why the director was blackballed for the Oscars.  For DCPS then to present this to its students as history not only shows Kaya's ignorance and possibly prejudice, it can have the effect of hardening racial resentments among those sent to see it.[/quote]The director should not have been nominated for an Oscar because she did a mediocre job of directing.  I'm sure lots of directors who distorted the truth have been nominated for Oscars -- OLIVER STONE, anyone?  I'm sorry, I'm glad to see the Selma struggle being portrayed on the silver screen (I used to teach the Civil Rights movement and I think it's important that more people learn about the key struggles in the movement) but I think DuVernay is overrated. [/quote]

Oliver Stone is considered a conspiracy wacko who makes stuff up and tries to pass it off as history.  Too bad for DuVernay that she has put herself in the position of being lumped together with Stone.[/quote]

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