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Mississippi Burning Page #6
- R
- Year:
- 1988
- 128 min
- 5,570 Views
(Ward whistles)
(judge) The defendants will rise.
In this country a man's home is his castle.
That is one of the principles
by which this community survives.
You men have done violence
to that principle.
But I want you to know
that the court understands...
..that the crimes you have committed
have been, to some extent at least,...
..brought about by... outside influences.
(murmuring)
Outsiders have come
into Jessup County...
..and they've been
people of low morality,...
..and unhygienic.
has provoked a lot of people.
(murmuring)
So the court understands,...
..without condoning them, mind you,...
..that the crimes to which
you men have pled guilty...
..were, to some extent at least,
provoked by these outside influences.
So, with all this,
I'm gonna make your punishment light.
to five years' imprisonment.
But I'm gonna suspend these sentences.
(cheering)
You can't go in there, sir.
FBl. Let us through.
I'm sorry, sir. You can't go in there.
Sheriff?
Y'all really started somethin' this time.
Move these cars.
I wanna go in and talk to them.
- You've gone as far as you're gonna go.
- We can handle this.
Just some crazy coloureds
tearin' up their own a**holes.
Local problem.
Look at those flames, Mr Ward. That's
why they sent you down here, wasn't it?
It would've happened anyway
and you know it.
If I was a Negro,
I'd probably think the same way they do.
If you were a Negro,
nobody'd give a damn what you thought.
(neighing)
Aaron! Take your momma, grandmomma
and the children out the back door.
When you hit the road, keep goin'.
You understand? Keep goin', son.
Nathan! Come on, Nathan. Get up!
Get up, Nathan, now! Come on!
Get out of the bed!
- (Nathan) What's happening?
- Momma! Come on, Momma.
Come on, y'all.
Come on, Grandma. Let's go!
(' "Try Jesus" by Vesta Williams)
#All ye who labour
Who's there? If you're in there,
come on out! You hear?
I ain't takin' this sh*t no more!
#Bring him your burdens
#Seek not his favour
#Tell... tell him your sorrows
#In... him... confide
#He satisfies
#He satisfies
Everything's OK, Papa.
Momma and the girls are fine.
They just cracked your head some.
You just keep on breathin'.
Don't you go dyin' on me now.
You hear me?
You gonna be just fine.
You know, cows won't run away. No one
knows why. They're just stupid, I guess.
their bellies swell up and they pop.
They have relatives in Detroit.
- Are they gonna go?
- I didn't give 'em any choice.
(Anderson) At least we know who did this.
- We did.
- Well, don't fret. It's progress.
20 years ago they'd have
strung 'em up for stealin' a watermelon.
I don't understand you, Mr Anderson.
Not at all.
Let's get somethin' straight, all right?
This thing was f***ed up the moment
we turned it into a show for the newsmen.
disappeared, it was news.
The moment the three civil rights
workers disappeared, it was news.
To me they're just kids.
They're still missin'.
What's missing... is the 50 minutes
Pell said he was with his wife.
OK.
I love Mississippi.
They...
They hate Mississippi.
They hate us because
we present a shining example...
..of successful segregation.
These Northern students,
with their atheist, communist bosses,...
..that have come into our community
this summer with the wish to destroy it,...
..this week have taken a terrible blow.
This week their cause has been crippled.
This week all of these federal policemen
you see out here pryin' into our lives,...
..violatin' our civil liberties,...
..have learned that they are
powerless against us...
Christian one of us stands together!
This week...
- Ward?
- We have company, sir.
Why are you here?
This is a political meeting.
- Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
- It's a political meeting, Hoover boy.
Oh, it looks like a political meeting
but smells more like Klan to me,...
..with or without the Halloween costumes.
Gentlemen.
In the courts of Mississippi,
they have been reminded...
..that they cannot by force
turn our communities...
..into replicas of theircommunities.
Communities in which Negroes run riot,
unrestrained and unpunished,...
..as they do this summer in the streets
of Harlem, or in the streets of Oakland,...
..or in the streets of Chicago!
(knocks)
Can I come in?
It's not good for you to be here.
- Why?
- It's ugly.
Have you any idea what it's like
to live with all this?
People look at us...
and only see bigots and racists.
Hatred isn't something you're born with.
It gets taught.
At school they said segregation
is what it said in the Bible.
Genesis 9, verse 27.
At seven years of age, you get
told it enough times, you believe it.
You believe the hatred.
You live it. You breathe it.
You marry it.
My husband drove
one of the cars that night.
- Shh.
- That's what you wanna hear, isn't it?
(sobbing) The bodies are buried
on the Roberts farm, in an earthen dam.
Sir!
Take a break, Mr Bird.
Put some handkerchiefs around your face.
(Bird retches)
Bring that here.
The bodies of the three civil rights
workers were found today...
..at an undisclosed grave.
Neither the FBI nor the sheriff's
department will comment on the case.
The bodies were brought
Officials here also refused comment.
There is speculation that an autopsy
will be performed later tonight.
OK, keep it open. We're comin' through.
Come on, open it up.
Hold it back.
Clinton,
you got problems at home to tend to.
What do you mean?
I mean pull your head
out of your ass and get home!
"I, Vincent Thompson, am the
cheddar-cheese champion ofthe world."
"In international competition with 42 other
entries, my cheddar won fiirstprize...
..based on flavour, texture,
appearance and colour."
Hey, Clinton.
I didn't expect you home so early.
Hi, Frank.
No, don't. I'm sorry.
(punching)
(Mrs Pell moans)
Sir.
Say again?
I'll be right there.
- Mr Bird.
- Yes, sir?
Get five men and meet me outside.
- Where's Anderson?
- He's at the motel, sir.
You two take the front door. If anyone
tries to get past you, break 'em down.
You two take the door on the corridor.
Mr Bird?
OK. Go get Anderson. Bring him here.
Don't tell him why.
Don't tell him anything. Just get him here.
(footsteps)
Mr Anderson. Stop!
- Mr Anderson!
- Go to hell.
I'm telling you to stop and
I mean it. We're not killers.
- It's the difference between them and us.
- No, between them and you!
- You're no more like them than I am.
- Wrong.
What do you care what I do to a bastard
hidin' behind a sheriff's badge?
- You have the whole world to change!
- And I'm changin' it.
- You're as arrogant as you are stupid!
- You're changin' it too.
I'll make some changes right now!
Don't mess this up just because
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