WEST SIDE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD BIGOTRY

While critics rave about the remake of "West Side Story" by Spielberg, and the new, more "authentic" remake, I read that Spielberg decided NOT to use subtitles when the dialog is in Spanish. Spielberg asserted he did not want to "privilege" the English language.  He made the decision to deprive English speakers of the full film. OK, but I resent the discrimination against the majority of Americans who speak English as their only language OR who speak something other than Spanish as a 2nd language. English speakers, if you pay to see the film, you are encouraging further discrimination against you and yours. I POST THIS WITH A WARNING that such discrimination will only get worse.  I just posted my short comment on Newser: 

I read that Spielberg decided NOT to use subtitles when the dialog is in Spanish. He made the decision to deprive English speakers of the full film. OK, but I resent the discrimination against the majority of Americans who speak English as their only language OR who speak something other than Spanish as a 2nd language. English speakers, if you pay to see the film, you are encouraging further discrimination against you and yours.

     More thoughts on the subject.  I thoroughly enjoyed the original "West Side Story," and I enjoyed the dancing and accusatory Rita Moreno then, and am glad to know another person older than I am is still creative, for she is in the new film.  I saw her in "The Ritz," decades ago, and over the weekend, on a rerun of the 1950s tv sit-com, "Father Knows Best," she played an East Indian exchange student in the program's plea for tolerance.  I doubt if anyone from New Delhi objected to the actress (a word now out of fashion) playing someone from Asia then.  If you think my objection to the new film is petty, will the Spielberg film, when it plays Spain, Central and South America, run subtitles for the English parts of the film?  Or demand that the viewers learn English?  I assume it will have subtitles for the English parts of the film.  But Americans, no matter how many languages we know, are now to learn Spanish, as decreed by Hollywood.  I reject this politically correct demand, and will avoid the film.

EMMETT TILL STILL IN THE NEWS & THE NEW YORK TIMES

 The following is an excerpt from a NY Times article, as posted 7 Dec. 2021 on the site of American Renaissance.  Below the article is my comment on it - and on the case.   Hugh Murray

Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Investigation Without Charges

Audra D. S. Burch and Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, December 6, 2021

 

The Justice Department announced on Monday that it had closed an investigation into the abduction and murder of Emmett Till, the African American teenager whose gruesome killing by two white men more than six decades ago in Mississippi helped begin the civil rights movement.

In a news release dated Dec. 6, federal officials said there was not enough evidence to pursue charges in the case, which was reopened after a historian claimed in a book that Carolyn Bryant Donham, the central witness whose account of an encounter with Emmett led to his death, had recanted the most salacious portions of her story — that he had grabbed her and made sexually suggestive remarks.

Citing the statute of limitations and Ms. Donham’s denial that she had ever changed her story, the Justice Department said it could not move forward with prosecuting her for perjury.

During a moment of the trial in which jurors were not present, Ms. Donham claimed that the teenager had made sexually vulgar comments toward her and physical contact. But in a book published in 2017, “The Blood of Emmett Till” by Timothy B. Tyson, the author wrote that Ms. Donham had recanted her testimony in a 2008 interview, saying that the earlier stories she told were “not true.”

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Mr. Tyson’s claim generated outrage and renewed calls for the case to be reopened. Kristen Clarke, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, delivered the news to the family in person that the case was formally closed.

In a statement on Monday, the Justice Department said Mr. Tyson, despite saying he had recorded two interviews with Ms. Donham, provided just one recording to the F.B.I. that did not contain a recantation.

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Ms. Donham, 87, has rarely spoken publicly about the case. Her former husband and another man confessed to Emmett’s murder, though the confessions came after they were acquitted by an all-white jury. Both men are dead.

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In closing its investigation, the Justice Department said that Ms. Donham denied ever recanting her earlier testimony. In 2018, Ms. Donham’s daughter-in-law, Marsha Holley Bryant, who was present for the interviews with Mr. Tyson, said that Ms. Donham never recanted.

 

   MY COMMENT:

Mr Tyson says she recanted. Another woman, present at the interviews says Ms Donham did not. Tyson says he has 2 recordings of interviews with Ms Donham and gave one to the FBI. On that one, no recantation. Tyson never gave the other one to the FBI, if there was a 2nd one. Ms. Donham now says she did not recant. Tyson interviewed Ms. Donham some years ago, and said nothing about her changing her story AT THAT TIME until nearly a decade later when he published his book. At that time the media said Ms Donham was senile and could not confirm his story in his book. Hmmm! Is it possible the author of the book, Mr. Tyson, could have invented the story of her recantation in order to promote sales of his book? Is it possible Tyson lied? That he lied to smear a woman ,who when a young clerk in a store had to endure insulting and threatening advances by an obnoxious visitor from a distant city where such rude behaviour might have been tolerated or even the norm? But in Mississippi, as in most civilized lands, if you proposition a married woman, you are asking for trouble.

Comment of Pax Romana posted on Am Ren site 7 Dec 2021 but re the killing of another 14-year-old, edited

Black teenager, Emmett Till, (who sexually harassed a married woman in a store that was essentially her home, and was the son of an executed rapist and murderer), [I do not think the elder Till was charged with murder- Hugh Murray] who was himself murdered over 66 years ago, and who has been Memorialized, Sanctified, and Glorified by the MSM, Democrats, and in schools across the nation and around the world, right up to the present day, was also 14 years old at the time.

Here is a partial list of innocent White 14 year olds (the ones I know of), murdered by blacks, that the MSM, Democrats, and in schools across the nation and around the world, couldn't care less about:

14 year-old Ryan Rogers (stabbed to death while riding his bicycle, stabbed numerous times in the head and face were the cause of death) Palm Beach Gardens, FL., 11-15-2021

14 year-old Steven Wayne Butler III (beaten to death, body found in ditch)* Champaign, ILL., 7-29-2021

14 year-old Daisey ‘Jupiter’ Paulsen (stabbed more than 25 times, and strangled, while skateboarding) Fargo, N.D., 6-4-2021

14 year-old Cody Walker (shot to death, skeletal remains found in woods)* Milton, FL., 3-14-2021

14 year-old Ian Wilsey (shot to death in cold blood while walking to the store) Philadelphia, Pa. 11-28-2016

14 year-old David Kohler-Carpenter (shot to death, along with his 18 year old sister

14 year-old David Kohler-Carpenter (shot to death, along with his 18 year old sister and their father; home invasion) Barberton, OH., 12-31-2013

14 year-old Kelli O'Laughlin (stabbed to death during home burglary, perp taunted mother with dead daughter's cell phone) Indian Head Park, IL., 10-27-2011

14 year-old Lauren Deis (raped, stabbed to death, raped again after death, mutilation of her corps)* Pittsburgh, PA., 7-7-2010

14 year-old Chelsea Porter (raped, stabbed to death, during home burglery) Columbus, IND., 6-29-2007

14 year-old Chelsea Brooks (pregnant from rape, later strangled to death by rapist and accomplice)* Wichita, KS., 6-9-2006

14 year-old Ashley Nicole Neves (throat slite, face mutalated, hacked to death, for refusing perps advances)* Saint Marys, Camden County, GA., 5-21-2000

14 year-old Jennifer Ertman (kidnapped, gang raped, tortured, strangled to death, along with her 16 year old white girlfriend) Houston, TX., 6-24-1993

14 year-old Jody Lynn Wolf (raped, beaten to death, nude body found floating face up in Fresno canal) Fresno, CA., 8-13-1985

14 year-old Susan Jacobson (strangled to death, body in a 55-gallon oil barrel)* New York, N.Y., 5-15-1976