Romano's Interpretation Of Mississippi Burning

Starting off, as comparing and contrasting both Romano’s interpretation and the film Mississippi Burning there are the three items to address. The first being the echoing common trope of white’s portraying as hero’s and black’s being portrayed as the victims or at the least passive to the whites, to which I would argue the film interprets correctly at first with a late transition towards the opposite opposition to which I agree with Romano. As for the second interpretation, the movie does portray large amounts of people in power against the black civilians much like how Romano argued that white’s in the position of power worked against black civilians as proving the culture of racism being alive and well. This would be an argue against Romano.

Romano’s Interpretation Romano argues multiple points throughout her interpretations. With the three interpretations being the following, the echoing common trope being that white’s are portrayed as heroes and black’s are portrayed as victims with a passive voice both internal and external. Which downplays the importance of black activism while white’s “save” black civilians. To which Romano voices the lack of black activism much to the chagrin that white activism exists that are committed to racial justice. Where Romano argues that even in the film Mississippi Burning the white characters in the film have such a condescending voice to their black counterparts. Next being the trial that pits the white heroes against individual evil racists, that brings me to the example Romano paired with the Church Bombing Trials, the trials to pit the white heroes against evil (black culture)

In the first section of the trial and the film, I will be indifferent to the choice to both agree and disagree, to where I will begin to agree but then in turn disagree. If there is one solid argument needed though to further prove one of the two, there would be a solid agreement of Romano saying that there is a sense of white power and courage as the black civilians has more of a passive voice throughout. The only true disagreement to the first question is that towards the end of the film, when an unnamed black male works with the FBI agents Anderson and Ward to both threaten and scare the Mayor of the Mississippi town. The black male is arranged to kidnap Mayor Tilman, which he does and later takes the mayor to a shake in the middle of no-wheres-ville Mississippi. To which the black male threatens to castrate the Mayor if he does not speak out against the supposed Ku Klux Klan members that had murdered and buried the two white activists and the black male (supposed) activist. We (viewers) later find out that the unnamed black male that abducted the mayor was yet another FBI agent, who in turn received a full description of the violent act from the mayor, although when the evidence was later brought to court it was dismissed from the judge, who in turned seemed to be coercing with the Klansmen in town themselves. This is the only scene that