3.10.2006

The Confederate States of America

That's the name of a high brow movie showing at the Magnolia in Dallas. It's premise: What if the South had won the Civil War? It surmises: - The USA would have remained neutral regarding Hitler - Kennedy was assassinated due to threatening to emancipate - The Watts Riots were "slave rebellions" - And a presidential candidate has his "racial identity" questioned and is forced to publicly insist that his great grandfather "did not have sexual relations with that woman" (the woman being, of course, a slave). Good Stuff. (Reviewed in the Morning News today).