I know the British, the Belgians, the Germans, and 100 other countries, including the US Army has been guilty of equally disappointing human behavior, but this is a story about my people. The saddest part of the story is how a handful of runaway slaves helped Newton and then many more whites, but in all too common southern white fashion, the white folks, when the war was over and the deserters were safe, they turned on the blacks, even the ones who had saved their lives. The movie does a good job of not sugar coating anything, from the battlefield scenes to the trial for interracial marriage (shades of the gay marriage struggle in Mississippi today), to the killings of both white and black folks. That was apparently the only time anyone in his family had anything to do with the Knights. He recently told me that his mother, born in 1910 was picking black berries or strawberries and she and her family stopped at the Knight house to get water. Funny thing, he doesn't use the "N-word" in conversation, but i guess because the community held the Knights in a "Special" place, this was the title he knows to call them by. My father has often talked about the Knight N_gs, of course being an old white man from Mississippi, he uses the word. The rows were spacious so he could even push the walker in front of him, and we sat. Nicer still that the walk to the theater where it was showing was the first door inside. It was nice that I could pull up near the curb and let my 84 year old father out with his walker. The Movies of Lake Worth is in a little strip shopping center out near the Florida Turnpike. He liked that, so today, on my parents 62nd wedding anniversary, which we did not mention, but I am certain was on his mind as much as mine, we went. So when the movie came out, and he said he thought he would like to see it, I offered to go with him. My mother passed away in January of this year.
FREE STATE OF JONES, A REVIEW AND A COUPLE OF ASIDES My father grew up in Soso, Mississippi.
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