"He didn't realize that being poor was what was killing him."

[Catherine Vincent]

Mississippi Burning -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/

best line in the film...
"My old man was just so full of hate that he didn't realize that being poor was what was killing him."

In other words all the racism from the poor whites was simply misdirected anger at a group of people (blacks) who had nothing to do with their situation. The wealthy Southern white establishment had always used that to maintain the social order of the South. Its no wonder in the last weeks and months of the Civil War, disillusioned confederate soldiers were talking about the conflict as a "rich man's war but a poor man's fight", for it was in those last days they finally realized they were being used as pawns by cotton kings and other wealthy elites who didn't want their ante-bellum plantation "eden" to disappear forever.

Great film...
by HapppinessAZ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/board/thread/23087146

[MADem]

1. How odd...we saw that "ON DEMAND" just the other day...NT

[Catherine Vincent]

2. I watched it a couple of weeks ago.

It's been a while since I saw it. I frequent IMDB.com often and like to read the comments. I read that first post and thought I should post it here. Thanks for the rec. :)

I thought the best line was this:

Agent Anderson (played by Gene Hackman): Now you listen here, Shitkicker! Don't you go confusin' me with some whole other body. You must be thinkin' with your dick if you think we're gonna just walk away from this. We're gonna stay 'till this gets done.

That one made me smile.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Gene Hackman, yeah.

When he was flirting with the deputy's wife, that was amazing.

I NEVER thought Gene Hackman would look attractive to me.

But he did in that movie.


Gailard Sartain was the Sheriff. He lives in Tulsa and used to be on the local Saturday night silly movie hosting with Gary Busey.

[Solly Mack]

3. True words

Good movie!

[misanthrope]

5. That's the very best part of that movie...

...Too bad those Southern soldiers who learned that lesson couldn't hold onto and spread it. Poor Southern whites gleefully lapped up the racial division swill for over century afterward and still do.

[tbyg52]

6. Yep. The real "us" against "them" is

people who abuse money/power (them) against those who don't have money/power (us).

But the money/power people keep trying to set up fake "us's" and "them's" to distract us.