a 1974 movie called Conrack
A true story based on the experiences of Pat Conroy, a white man who taught black children on an isolated island off the s.e. coast of the U.S. Starred jon voight. My husband and I saw the movie at a drive-in and it was probably one of the first meaningful influences on my outlook. I don't understand how jon voight, or anyone else could be in a movie like that and not be profoundly changed by the story. I checked before I posted, and voight indeed used to be considered a liberal. Something changed him, and now he is a rwnj, favored by traitor felon rapist.
Was voight just fooling himself and us all those years? I feel like he changed his outlook after the movie Coming Home. I tried to watch that movie, but it was so grim, and I didn't finish it. Maybe whatever message was in that movie was a greater influence than the message in Conrack. It is extremely disappointing to see people turn their backs on personal, social and cultural growth and undermine any progress being made toward better understanding among people.
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"To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open you an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, “There. That taste. That’s the taste of my childhood.” I would say, “Breathe deeply,” and you would breathe and remember that smell for the rest of your life, the bold, fecund aroma of the tidal marsh, exquisite and sensual, the smell of the South in heat, a smell like new milk, semen, and spilled wine, all perfumed with seawater. My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of indrawn tides."
read this with your best southern accent and wow it's sexy
