The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

 This book, like Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey, and others, came out (no pun intended) at the local library during LGBTQ Appreciation Month. The books under this title celebrated and/or concerned people in this large community. The Knockout Queen is just one of those many books. I thought it was excellent. In a way, it sort of represents the massive homophobia that those who are gay face every day, especially in the days after that college student Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and beaten nearly to death, only to die from his injuries because of one thing-he happened to be gay. People who are LGBTQ seem to often face hatred and discrimination based on who they love. I can say that anyone in the LGBTQ community is fine with me. I don't hate or judge; I can't. It's A.) not who I am and B.) hypocritical of me to think bad of anyone in the LGBTQ community when I listen to Elton John, who's gay, Judas Priest, whose front man Rob Halford is gay, David Bowie, who's bisexual, Queen, whose then front man Freddie Mercury is bisexual but current front man Adam Lambert is gay.

Summary

-North Shore. Modern day. North Shore is a small town just outside Los Angeles. It's one of those everyone-knows-everyone type towns. It's dominated by an oil factory and mostly industrial work. Bunny Lampert is the star player on her high school's volleyball team with Olympic dreams in mind. Her dad, Ray, is one the town's most successful real estate agents, though he has some skeletons in the closet and is a raging alcoholic. Her next door neighbor is Michael Hesketh, a teen struggling with his homosexuality who is caught smoking in her back yard one day. Rather than yell at him, they become fast friends. He even comes out to her and straight up tells her he's gay. They spend evenings watching RuPaul's Drag Race and become fast friends. Then one day, everything changes. A bullying classmate finds out something about Michael and spreads vicious gossip around the school. Bunny smashes the girl's head in and she's put into a medically-induced coma, only to later die. As Bunny is put in prison for manslaughter, Michael and Bunny drift apart until years later. They reconnect and discover that Bunny is a championship MMA fighter who's starting to suffer from memory problems after taking many hits to the head while Michael is working on a doctorate in evolution.

Cynic leader Paul Masvidal defends Sebastian Bach against homophobic joke made by comedian

 That's right. A comedian made a homophobic joke directed at Rob Halford. Cynic leader Paul Masvidal stands up and gives Sebastian Bach praise for defending close friend Rob Halford

During an interview on podcast Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll, Paul Masvidal gave high praise and applause to Sebastian Bach for his response to a homophobic joke directed at Judas Priest front man Rob Halford.

Early in the interview, Bach explained how he heard that Halford does not do pre-show warm ups, which a comedian named Big Jay Oakerson responded "His exercise is probably something gay he doesn't want to tell ya. You gotta gargle jizz, but I dunno how to tell you that, Sebastian."

Bach, immediately angry at the homophobic insult towards someone he calls a friend, responded "Dude, could you not wreck this interview?" He stated Halford is a close friend and that the comedian should "skip those kinds of comments". Not long after, he left the Zoom interview

Paul Masvidal came out as publicly gay in 2014. He felt Bach did something responsible and that he did "the right thing" by leaving the interview while saying that underscoring this incident is an example of how homophobia is "culturally perpetuated when a comic can use the word "gay" in a derogatory way disguised as humor."

Furthermore, Masvidal added in an Instagram post "This ain't about being uptight. It's about ending the normalization of homophobic bull----. And in the same way that Bach has grown up since the days he'd wear AIDS: kills f---s dead t-shirts, Big Jay Oakerson needs to as well."

Masvidal later noted that Halford commented on the situation, giving it his usual sense of humor by saying he swallows, not gargles, but that this shouldn't be a means for Oakerson to "feel justified" for his actions.

Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey

This book came out recently. I read it and it was amazing!!! It had come out at my local library as part of LGBTQ Awareness Month. For those who don't know, this stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. Lately, the letter Q has been added, which refers to Questioning, which means you don't really know where you fall, whether it be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Overall, great book. But not alot of people are interested in a book where it centers heavily around the LGBTQ communities. But, I can safely say that anyone who is part of the LGBTQ communities are awesome with me!

Summary

Big Burr, Kansas. Modern day. Labeled as "The Most Homophobic Town in America", a nonprofit organization called Acceptance Across America, whose sole goal is trying to gain acceptance between those in the LGBTQ communities and straight communities, sends in a queer task force to live and work among the locals for two years. As time goes by, the townsfolk and the task force members come to accept one another as they are. Told from the point of view of both townsfolk and task force members, they come to eventually accept the newcomers and see things in a new light. Some of the townsfolk include Avery, a teenager from Los Angeles whose mother Karen, an open lesbian, is the head of the task force. Or Gabe, a big game hunter who is macho on the outside, but is secretly fighting his closeted homosexuality. Some of the task force members include Harley, a black transgender fighting with identity, whether she is actually a he or he is actually a she. Or David, an openly gay man whose Hispanic partner Miguel uprooted them from New Mexico to Big Burr, Kansas to help care for his elderly father Arturro.

Day 14-Something You Wish Didn't Exist

This will be simple
https://never3nding.tumblr.com/post/2660644142/tumblr-30-day-challenge

Racism
-I HATE RACISM!! I grew up learning to be tolerant of everyone who was different. I was taught, along with my sister, to treat others as we would want to be treated. We just can't find it in ourselves to treat someone bad simply because they are of another skin color/race/ethnicity/culture. We both have friends and coworkers who come from different cultures and we both love it. Why do people have to hate someone simply because of skin color/race/religion/language/ethnicity or more? I would love to see the day when we all stop hating one another simply for being different

Greed
-Last time I checked, I'm not overly, beat the Bible-level religious, but isn't greed one of the Seven Deadly Sins? I hate being greedy. That's why I'm not. Me and my sister learned to be good with our money. Don't live beyond your means. If you can't afford it, you don't need it. Sure you can want it all you want, but that's not going to make the money appear in your pocket. Budget. Spend money on the important stuff first-bills. Then you can spoil yourself if you want to. Our mom and stepdad are very thankful we are good with our money. We always and I mean ALWAYS help our parents with money whenever they need. They need a little help paying for a new AC system or furnace? We're there to help. They have good paying jobs, but sometimes things come up that require finances beyond their means. They are thankful we are not greedy and live like we're millionaires [snickering, you're kidding right?] We'll never see a million bucks in a thousand lifetimes unless we play the lottery. And even in those situations, the people who win always live like it's their last day and they go broke in no time. I do not like people being greedy. Besides, me and my sister have plans for our money. Occasionally, me and my sister will take mini vacations. For example, every year, me and her go down to Lexington, Kentucky for Scarefest, a Halloween/horror-themed convention. And when we are not going there, we are going to Columbus, OH for a concert or going to other cities nearby to see the sights.

-It gets worse at Christmas time, when commercials showing people buying expensive cars like Lexus, Jaguars, etc, expensive technology like Apple iPhones, iPads, drones, $80+ animatronic Hatchimal toys, etc for adults and kids. That kind of stuff annoys me about Christmas. When it comes to Christmas, me and my sister usually ask for small stuff. Like for example, this year all I really want is a toy net for my overload of Beanie Babies. I love Beanie Babies and stuffed animals (yeah, it might sound like I'm a kid, but I love plush animals. Don't judge, rofl). All my sister wants for Christmas is electronic drumsticks that when you move them, it sounds like you're playing the drums. In her case, it would be like she is Tre Cool, the drummer from her all-time favorite band Green Day

In the Heat of the Night (1968)

This is the movie that most likely inspired the television series of the same name.

Summary
-A Philadelphia homicide detective named Virgil Tibbs is asked to work alongside Chief William 'Bill' Gillespie in the sleepy, but racially hostile southern town of Sparta, Mississippi to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman

Cast
-Sidney Poitier: Virgil Tibbs
-Rod Steiger: Bill Gillespie
-Warren Oates: Sam Wood
-Lee Grant: Mrs. Colbert
-Larry Gates: Endicott
-James Patterson: Mr. Purdy
-William Schallert: Mayor Schubert
-Beah Richards: Mama Caleba
-Kermit Murdock: Henderson
-Quentin Dean: Delores

Did You Know?
-During filming, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were nearly killed by Ku Klux Klansmen during a visit to Mississippi. After that, they insisted the movie be filmed in the north. That gave way to the town of Sparta, Illinois. There were scenes that were filmed in Tennessee, such as exterior shots of cotton plantations because Illinois did not have them. Sidney Poitier slept with a gun under his pillow and received threats from local racist thugs. Production was shut down and moved to Illinois from that point on
-Despite the fact that the movie is set during summer in Mississippi, it was filmed during autumn in Illinois. The cast members chewed chips of ice but were asked to spit them out before filming began so their breath wouldn't be caught on film during the night scenes
-This is frequently cited as one of Sidney Poitier's top favorite film that he's done
-Because of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. getting killed on April 4, 1968, the presentation for Best Picture Oscar for the film was postponed until April 10, 1968. It was originally supposed to be on April 8, 1968
-From what Sidney Poitier says, the scene where his character, Virgil Tibbs, slaps Endicott (Larry Gates), was not in the original script or even the novel it's based on. It was completely improvised and Poitier insisted that the scene be in the movie.
-Beah Richards, who played an abortionist named Mama Caleba, appeared with Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She played his mother in the film
-Despite the fact that Warren Oates and Lee Grant were among the top of the list for actors and actresses who play racist roles, they are very upfront about their support of the civil rights movement
-The N-word is used seven times, all directed toward Virgil Tibbs

"I Have a Dream"

I have always loved this speech. It's so simple in its words, but conveys a meaning that seems to have been lost among the years. Essentially, the speech refers to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanting nothing more than a world where everyone is seeing everyone the same, no matter the race, skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, etc. But, in years past, with groups like the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter and others, whose sole purpose to only earn rights for certain race groups, his speech and dream has not only not been accomplished, it has been taken and thrown to the ground, stomped on, spit on and finally set ablaze, as if it were not important. This man wanted nothing more than a world where everyone is seen as equals under the watchful eyes of God. Why can't this world just get along? Why must we have people saying that certain people are racist when they really aren't? Why do we have to have people who hate each other because of skin color, ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, sexuality and more?

If it's one thing I truly hate, and I know hate is a strong word, but I truly hate when people have to hate someone for something as simple as skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality or other factors. It makes me want to cry to know that the few white people that are racist make people think that because I am white that I am racist. I am not. I love everyone for who they are. Someone would really have to annoy me or do something extremely bad to me to make me hate them. And if that's the case, I dislike you because you did something wrong, not because of your skin color, not because of your race or ethnicity or any other factors.

What I have always believed is that in every race or ethnicity, there are those very few people who are racially biased that gives everyone a bad name. Something I have always believed is that you should not blame the whole for the actions of a few. Which means that do not blame a whole group of people simply on the actions of just a few.

"I Have a Dream"
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity; one hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.

So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy; now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice; now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood; now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content, will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community, must not lead us to a distrust of all white people. For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of Civil Rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No! no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.  Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi. Go back to Alabama. Go back to South Carolina. Go back to Georgia. Go back to Louisiana. Go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.  Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I HAVE A DREAM TODAY!

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama — with its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification — one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I HAVE A DREAM TODAY!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be plain and the crooked places will be made straight, “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.  With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brother-hood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.  And this will be the day. This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire; let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania; let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia; let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. “From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”

The Help (2011)

This is the movie based on the book of the same name by Kathryn Stockett

Summary
-Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is an aspiring author in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi who writes a tell-all memoir of the black maids' point of view working for white people in the South during the civil rights movement

Cast
-Emma Stone: Skeeter Phelan
-Viola Davis: Aibileen Clark
-Bryce Dallas Howard: Miss Hilly Holbrook
-Octavia Spencer: Minny Jackson
-Jessica Chastain: Celia Foote
-Ahna O'Reily: Elizabeth Leefolt
-Allison Janney: Charlotte Phelan
-Anna Camp: Jolene French
-Eleanor Henry: Mae Mobley
-Emma Henry: Mae Mobley
-Chris Lowell: Stuart Whitworth
-Cicely Tyson: Constantine Jefferson
-Mike Vogel: Johnny Foote
-Sissy Spacek: Missus Walters
-Roslyn Bluff: Pascagoula
-Leslie Jordan: Mr. Blackly
-David Oyelowo: Preacher Green
-Dana Ivey: Gracie Higginbottom
-LaChanze: Rachel

 



Did You Know?
-Kathryn Stockett's book of the same name was rejected sixty times before it was finally published

-Tate Taylor, who directed the movie and Kathryn Stockett were friends growing up in Jackson, Mississippi
-It is never mentioned in the movie how "Skeeter" got her nickname. In the book, however, she got the nickname because she had a pointy nose and thin body, leading her brother to say she looked like a skeeter (mosquito)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Despite the fact the book takes place in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, the movie actually takes place in 1963, amidst the heating up of the civil rights movement. About an hour in to the movie, actual news footage covering the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is used. The reason being that he was assassinated in his own driveway in front of his wife and kids in 1963. It's also referenced in the book

-In order to gain weight for her role as Celia Foote, Jessica Chastain, a vegan, ate soy ice cream melted in the microwave

-Three of the books referenced in the original novel that make an appearance in Skeeter's room are Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

-Bryce Dallas Howard, who played Miss Hilly Holbrook, was pregnant during the filming of the movie

-One of the books on Skeeter's book shelf is Native Son by Richard Wright. While Skeeter has the best intentions in her heart, she is completely naïve and unaware of the potentially harmful damage she is doing by interacting with the black communities. This closely mirrors Mary Dalton's treatment of Bigger Thomas in Wright's story
-According to the novel, Skeeter's old maid, Constantine, died three weeks after arriving in Chicago
-In the story, Constantine's daughter Rachel was born with light, pale skin, referred to as "high yellow", leading most everyone to suspect that Rachel was not Constantine's child because she appeared white instead of black.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

This is a book I read recently and it was very good, especially if you are very interested in the history of the civil rights movement, like me.

Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a white college student who recently graduated from the University of Mississippi or "Ole Miss" in 1962. All her life, her and her family have relied on the aid of black maids, often referred to as "the help", thus the title of the story. After talking with her family's maid, Aibileen Clark, who talked about her son Treelore wanting to write a story about what it would be like to work as a black person in the white world, suddenly she has a revelation for a story that could rock the very foundations of 1962 Jackson, Mississippi

She enlists the help of Aibileen Clark and has her start asking around for maids who want to write a tell all about what it is really like to work as a black maid in the homes of the South. First up is Aibileen's hair-trigger tempered friend Minny Jackson, who is known as the sassiest, loudest mouth in town, but is also known for her wonderful pies. After a while, Skeeter has a whole lineup of maids wanting to talk. She interviews them and says that she will change the name of all who are involved to protect their identities. When the book is published and everyone starts reading it, they all try and figure out if this place in the story, listed as Niceville, Mississippi, is a real life place and the people are real.

Rob Halford on LGBT rights

"I always thought things would be better". This is what Rob Halford, front man for legendary British speed metal band Judas Priest had to say about the current state of affairs in the LGBT communities.

He always thought things would improve over time, like the old adage "Time heals all wounds". Apparently some wounds still refuse to heal. He thought things about gay rights would improve, but sadly no. He said he is happy with the warmth and kindness he has received from the hard rock community after coming out of the closet in 1998. He was actually worried at first about coming out as gay, thinking he would suffer from some sort of fallout effect

"I just get so frustrated and angry that here we are in 2017. Because of that society I grew up in, and to a still great extent today, we have this tremendous push back in equality. I always kind of felt, as I was going through my teen years, my twenties and my thirties, things would be better – but they’re not. There’s still a long way to go in America and in my home country. And in some parts of the world, people like me get thrown off buildings. People like me get hung, just because of who we are." He told Blabbermouth.

Rob compared struggles of LGBT people to the types of struggles faced by "people of color" and "people having tremendous difficulties with accepting religions". He added "It’s a crazy world. You’d think that by now we’d have just figured things out – live and let live, love each other and just accept each other for who we are. Life is short."

He recalled the moment he came out as gay during an MTV interview. "The thing about gay people is that, until we come out of the closet, we’re always protecting other people – ‘I can’t do this, because it’s gonna hurt so-and-so.’ We’re trying to live the lives of other people, and that’s the worst thing you can do. You’ve gotta learn to love yourself, then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out. So I said that thing, and I went back to the hotel and I thought, ‘What have I done? There’s going to be a fallout."

After coming out, he experienced not a fallout, but an outpouring of respect and kindness. His bandmates in Judas Priest had no issue with him being gay. Even bassist Ian Hill was quoted as saying "we always knew he was gay but we treated him like a normal human being because that's the way gay people should be treated."

He mentioned "I’d never seen such an outpouring of love in all my life from everybody in the metal community. Rob, we don’t care. We want you to be who you are.’ That was a tremendously uplifting moment for me. This just goes to show you that we in the metal community – probably because of the push back we felt because of the music we love – we are the most tolerant, the most open-minded, the most loving, the most accepting of all the kinds of music in rock’n’roll. So it was a great moment."

Maps of Hell

Summary
-This is something Matt Wells could never have dreamed up in any of his novels. After waking up naked in a cell, not being able to remember who he is or how he got there, he soon learns he is the victim of a sick brainwashing experiment being done by a secret militia known as the North American Nazi Revival, a group dedicated to bringing back the ideals of the Nazis. He occasionally will get glimpses of who he was as he starts remembering, things like musicians he likes, such as Led Zep or The Stones, a blonde woman he thinks he should know. After escaping, he is convicted of 3 murders.

He gets partial help in escaping from a woman named Mary. And soon they are in a hotel hiding, she tries to take him to bed, only to be refused sex. Angered, she calls the police and tells them to look for an Englishman named Matt Wells.

The Color of Friendship

This is a really good movie!!!

The Color of Friendship

Summary
-Mahree Bok is a girl who lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a police man who openly despises blacks, as do all the others subscribing to the hate of Aparthied. He can't hide his joy when civil rights activist Stephen Biko is arrested. Meanwhile, Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US Congressman from California who lives at home with his family in Washington D.C. When Mahree is chosen to do a foreign exchange program at the Dellums' house, she does not expect that her host family will be black and Piper does not expect her new possible friend to be white

Cast
-Lindsey Haun: Mahree Bok
-Shadia Simmons: Piper Dellums
-Carl Lumbly: Ron Dellums
-Penny Johnson: Roscoe Dellums
-Anthony Burnett: Brandy Dellumbs
-Travis Kyle Davis: Erik Dellums
-Melanie Nicholls-King: Flora
-Susan Danford: Merle Bok
-Stephen Jennings: Pieter Bok
-Michael Kanev: Rian Bok

Did You Know?
-Mahree Bok's name in real life was Carrie

Longmire

Longmire

Summary
-Walt Longmire is the charismatic sheriff for Absaroka County in Wyoming. He's been widowed only a year, with an adult daughter named Cady. With the help of Victoria 'Vic' Moretti, one of his young female deputies, he becomes energized once more about his job and running for re-election. Unlike most of the locals, Longmire is very compassionate and knowledgeable about the local Indian tribes. He treats them with the utmost respect

Cast
-Robert Taylor: Walt Longmire

-Katee Sackhoff: Victoria 'Vic' Moretti

-Bailey Chase: Branch Connally

-Adam Bartley: Ferg

-Lou Diamond Phillips: Henry Standing Bear

-Cassidy Freeman: Cady Longmire