Why did you give "Selma" a rating of 1?

Yet you don't seem to be questioning all the perfect 10's...Weird.

Dear U, Thanks for writing. Maybe that's just my perspective. If I don't like a film I give it a 5 or 6. For me, a film would have to be loathsome to earn a "1." Sort of "worst film ever." As I wrote in the original posting, most people gave "Selma" a very high rating. So, my question was to the minority who gave it a "1." Red-125

When a film is generally acclaimed like this one, a 10 is not much of an anomaly. It would be more appropriate to ask about the 10s if you were on the board for a film that was widely hated.

Dear Delta, Thanks for writing. Were you talking about other people in general, or about your own thoughts? Red-125

Do you have any idea of how many white people have been acquitted after murdering blacks? Take George Zimmerman, who stalked and killed an unarmed Treyvon Martin. Sure, the Simpson verdict was probably unjust, but for every Simpson verdict there were scores of whites that got off after killing black men and women.

As for Al Sharpton (That's his name, SHARPTON, are you so mentally challenged you cannot get even that right), for every Sharpton there is a Jerry Fallwell, who blamed the attacks on the WTC on gays and lesbians. Yet I NEVER see the depth of hate toward that pea-brained idiot.

Now as far is Obama is concerned, what are the lies that he has told? Can any equal the ones told to us by Bush and Cheney to get us into Iraq? No! By the way I voted for Obama twice and think that he has made a pretty good president, certainly better than any Republican elected since Eisenhower.

Do I detect racism in your post? Like hell I do. You are the type of person that should see this film, but, sadly, your intelligence quotient is so low I doubt you would get anything out of it.

I ask you - why did blacks acquit murderer OJ Simpson? Why do they follow race-baiter Al Charlatan or elect a lying, unqualified half-black as president - and give him a second term when he failed so badly in his first?

Dear Homeimp, Thanks for writing. I was unaware of this trend. Very enlightening! Red-125

Dear Comtractor, I see your point. However, I think the percentage of 1's was somewhat higher here. Thanks for writing. Red-125

Dear cool planter, thanks for writing. I grew up in the '50's, and was in my 20's during the Civil Rights movement. (My sister and I were at the Civil Rights March in DC.). We'll never know how much progress Dr. King would have made without President Johnson, and vice-versa. About a third of the people who agreed that "Selma" deserved a rating of "1" did so because of the portrayal of LBJ. I can certainly understand that point of view, even if I disagree. Red-125

I think people are exaggerating how badly LBJ was portrayed in the film. The way I saw it, he was someone who did want to help and who wanted to do what MLK was asking, but just couldn't for political reasons. People say he was the villain, but that's just not true. Without a doubt, George Wallace was the villain in the film. LBJ was the one trying to talk him out of stopping black people from registering, who did what he could to hold back Hoover, who regularly talked to MLK in person and who eventually went on to make his passionate speech in front of congress before signing the voting act.

He was clearly shown as an essential ally to the civil rights movement, just one who spent most of the film wringing his hands about prioritising civil rights over his many other issues but even then he was somewhat sympathetic. Like he said to King "you're an activist, I'm a politician". It's understandable in the film that as president, he does have other matters to prioritise and it was King's job to give him reasons to prioritise civil rights instead.