Movie
1997
Rosewood is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by John Singleton, inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town. It stars Ving Rhames as an outsider who comes into Rosewood and inspires residents to self-defense, wielding his pistols in a fight. The supporting cast includes Don Cheadle as Sylvester Carrier, a resident who was a witness,…
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When asked about the worst examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the past decade, most Americans, and, to be fair, most people in the world, would answer with words like "Kosovo" and "Bosnia". Very few would mention "Rwanda", and this is hardly surprising – in the American (and, therefore, global) worldview, genocide is not genocide if it doesn't happen to white people. All that could be explained by a self-p…More
