Yes, it’s a rainy night.
I am not use to bringing an umbrella with me in my whole life and I was walking very fast on the street, under the rain….it made me recall my times visiting Paris…Paris, is always beautiful in the rain…
I was holding a half bottle of wine from Toscana…it is not as expensive
as Moris Farms Avvoltore…Dan Ryan sells a decent Italian wine but
a bottle for me is way too much…I feel like I am a boozer but just in a
good controled ( boozer! Tks Edward, for teaching me this word, and
more…)
<the help> is a good movie! 
The power of a good movie, is when you want to learn more about why
they made the movie, and all the stories behind it.
I spent my half an hour there, while I waited for my juicy blue rare steak, browsing all the history of the “ African American Civil Rights Movement” .
Dan Ryan is always my favorite restaurant, the wooden tables are all tarnished…many single travelers, writers are there and we never bother each other…for years, after I watched hundreds of movies at Pacific Place, I would escaped to here, and write my film-review…
A week ago, I watched <mid night in Paris> by woody allen….which most of my friends all believe that I would love soooo much…but, I don’t.
Compared with <mid night in Paris>, < the help> touches me much more. It is a true story of racism and the revolutionary movement.
Which is something Abraham Lincoln announced an end to in 1863, but still many years later the situation is still around…that is what I learned in that half hour:
1896, <separate but equality> by Plessy U. Ferguson;
1963, denied.
1967, “poor people’s campaign”
Malcolm X, the quote and the film!
Yes, Martin Luther King and “ I have a dream”…
My birthday is really close to his day ( the 3rd Monday in January every year) and that is the only holiday Americans use a persons name to designate, besides Lincoln & Washington, and even Martin Luther King was not a president.
I was reading all those historical stories while I was taking my dinner at Dan Ryan…a friendly Black guy stared at me for a while but I am sure that he didn’t know what was on my mind at that moment…
---Apartheid
--- The Emancipation Proclamation
--- I Have a Dream
I felt like I was in another country, I have travelled half of this planet, and I always love to sit in a small restaurant, and read, write and feel other’s lives…
A sincere movie makes us learn, think, and break all the old rules and frames….<the help> is definitely it!
Even MJ has a song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxREIwfZLoY&feature=related
finally, let’s finish with Martin Luther King’s “ I have a 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, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners 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 made 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."2
This is our hope, and 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 brotherhood. 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 fathers 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.
And 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 molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom 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!
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