![]() He citesFarrakhan's statements that Judaism is a "gutter religion” and"Hitler was a great man.” After some of the tour members recycle old clichésabout Jewish landlords, the Belzer character says, "I wouldn't expect youto drive a bus to a Klan meeting,” and walks away from the bus at a rest stop.Dutton takes over driving. "At leastmy parents did their part,” he says they were civil-rights activists. When the bus breaks down, thereplacement driver ( Richard Belzer) is a Jewish man who keeps quiet as long ashe can, then speaks out about Farrakhan's libels against Jews. Another man reveals he's a former gang member,"cripping since I smoked a guy on my 13th birthday,” but that now he doessocial work with "kids at risk.” No matter the cop warns him: "Whenwe get back to L.A., I'm going to have to arrest you.”įor many white people,a distressing element of the Million Man March was the racial slant of itsconvener, Louis Farrakhan, who has made many anti-Semitic and anti-white slurs.Lee could have ducked this area, but doesn't. But then the cop himself isrevealed to have blinkers on. "The man sayshe's black, he's black,” pronounces Ossie Davis. That's true, too, in theattitudes toward the cop, whose skin is so light that he could pass for white,and who, it is revealed, became a cop in part because his black father, also acop, was killed ("yes,” he says, "by a brother”). The homosexual couple provokes the hostility ofthe gay-hater prejudice knows no color line. And a member of the Nation of Islam ( Gabriel Casseus), inblack suit, bow tie and dark glasses, who says not one word during the journey.ĭuring the course ofthe trip, conversations will be philosophical, humorous, sad, nostalgic, angryand sometimes very personal. Then there's a UCLA film student ( Hill Harper), who is shooting avideo documentary. And alight-skinned man ( Roger Guenveur Smith) is revealed as a cop assigned to SouthCentral. An ex-Marine ( Isaiah Washington), who is gay,boards the bus with his lover ( Harry Lennix) and they're singled out forpersecution by a homophobic would-be actor ( Andre Braugher). Another steadying hand is supplied by the oldest man on board, Jeremiah( Ossie Davis), a student of black history who delights in informing whitecowboys that a black cowboy invented steer wrestling.Īlso on board are afather ( Thomas Jefferson Byrd) and his young son (DeAundre Bonds), who havebeen shackled together by a court order the irony of going to the march inchains is not lost on the others. ![]() Dutton) will be an inspiration anda referee.
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