Call Him the Reviewer in Chief: Obama Breaks Down 'The Butler'

 

The movie “The Butler”, seems to portray Republican presidents negatively, and the Democratic presidents in a more positive light! I guess this may be because these Presidents are seen through the filtered eyes of a black man and his family at the beginning of and during the civil rights movement. What I think is left out is how the Voters Rights Act of 1965 and other Civil Rights bills were passed because of Republicans in the Senate and Congress even though there were Democratic Presidents in office at the time. JFK & LBJ!  During this time you had Democrats such as Lester Maddox and George Wallace doing everything in their power to stop this movement! The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood. What is lost in history today is that Republicans have done more to free blacks, give them the right to vote and attend schools of their choice then Democrats ever have! Just because Nixon didn’t visit MLK while he was in jail changed blacks perspective on Republicans forever without understanding the past! Nixon made a mistake, but black people need to reassess their allegiance because supporting the Democratic Party for the last 50 years has not served them well!