Where we went wrong.....

Ever since I got the Amazon Firestick I have been checking out movies that are still in the theaters. Aquaman. Fantastic Beasts 2. Bird Box. Plus a movie that might win the Oscar this year: "Green Book."

Now this movie is actually pretty good for what it is. It is the story of how a Italian mobbed up bouncer from the Copa is hired to drive a gay black piano player in the 1960's as they did a tour down South. He needed protection and they could only stay in places that took Negros that were listed in the "Green Book." It is in the old Stanley Kramer noble black man can't we all get along style popular in the 1950's and '60's which usually starred Sidney Poitier. Still and all it gave a really good depiction of what living in an Italian neighborhood was like in the 1960's. This was the Bronx but it was just the way I grew up in Brooklyn.


This is of course massive virtue signalling. The evil white people don't want the angelic black man in their businesses or restaurants. It is particularly apropos on the day that the Black Israelites are attacking young Italian Catholic kids. So this movie is going to be very popular with the virtue signally Hollywood mo's and has a chance to win a couple of Oscars.

Why they don't show is where this type of behavior leads. It doesn't show what that Bronx neighborhood looks like now. Or what it looked like in the 1970's and 1980's, Or how being white has become a crime where people can attack you on college campuses or just on the street.

I think it shows where we went wrong. Just saying.