Roots and Rockers

We've watched two interesting films over the past couple of weeks.

Roots, based on the book by Alex Haley, was much more intense than I had expected. Since it was a TV mini-series in the 1970s, I thought it would be somewhat tame. I was wrong.

The aspect that stood out to me the most was the sexual abuse. I had read about the emotional and physical abuse, and I knew that some slave owners did have children with their slaves, but I had never thought through the ramifications of it and what it must have been like.

The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a documentary about "John Lennon's transformation from a member of The Beatles to a rallying anti-war activist striving for world peace during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film also details the attempts by the United States government under President Richard Nixon to silence him" (Wikipedia).

President Bush's words about Iraq are surprisingly similar to Nixon's rhetoric about the Vietnam War.

I appreciated both films. It appears that watching TV is the most revolutionary thing on my agenda these days.