Soul Man (1986) To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
This is actually a fascinating movie. Yes, it's racist (like the scene where he plays basketball, but because he's not black, he sucks at it), but then the movie becomes self-aware, so in the last hour, it's on the road to redemption. Which makes you wonder why they even made the movie if they knew they would have to "apologize" for it. So the movie is like watching some guy punching himself in the face for an hour.
This is actually a fascinating movie. Yes, it's racist (like the scene where he plays basketball, but because he's not black, he sucks at it), but then the movie becomes self-aware, so in the last hour, it's on the road to redemption. Which makes you wonder why they even made the movie if they knew they would have to "apologize" for it. So the movie is like watching some guy punching himself in the face for an hour.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
