I have such a vivid memory of Forest Gump.

I just rented an apartment and there was a local theater and I just want to see whatever

movie was playing and it happened to be Forest Gump.

And it was in a crowded theater when I was sitting right in the center because I really

like to have optimal viewing.

And I just thought the film was horrifying from start to finish.

Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great Civil War hero General Nathan Bedford

for.

Including with the prologue in which Tom Hanks explains that his name is Forest Gump because

he's been named after Nathan Bedford Forest.

The first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

He'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts.

Forest Gump is a satire almost of, you know, like historical materialism.

It's him passing through the American past, importantly starting with the founding of the

clan.

Jenny and me was just like peas and carrots again.

She showed me around and even introduced me to some of her new friends.

Shut that blind man and get your white ass away from that window.

Don't you know we in a war here?

He was horrendous in so many levels, but the Panther scene to me was just almost unbearable.

Our purpose here is to protect our Black leaders from the racial law and sort of the pig

who is to brutalize our Black leaders, rape our women and destroy our Black communities.

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