it too bad iameracing want to deny the reality of faulkner and clarence brown purpose in the create of the story and film of intruder in the dust . i suppose the burden of a history of racism be difficult for any southerner to bear and i can understand that . but to say that this film be not specifically about racism be ridiculous and inaccurate . yes ( to borrow your use of the upper case ) iameracing and there be many many many place where black and white people in the south get along quite well . but to deny the way that black people be and sometimes still be force to live and the condition and injustice they have have to endure be not imaginary . sometimes black and white people get along because of genuine affection and understanding . sometimes it be only as long a black know their place . the point of make juano hernandez character ( in film and print ) a somewhat prickly type and not warm and fuzzy and be to underscore the fact that bigotry be wrong in and of itself and human right be just that for everyone regardless of whether we like a particular individual or not . it would do iameracing good to stop deny the existence of racism and the great harm it have do to american of all stripe . the fact be that black people ( among others ) do not and a a rule and not an exception and receive the benefit of the justice system a even handedly a white . segregation and discrimination and lynching be historical fact . people like iameracing might claim these thing be not as widespread a some think and would probably love to exonerate their ancestor and hero from any connection with such behavior . it would be a wonderful thing if iameracing southern ancestor ( if any ) never participate in any of the horrible racist action that mar this country history and i hope they do not . if that be so congratulation to them but that fact and if true and do not erase the fact that others do . and even if the horrible thing that be do to black in the south ( and other area and let not forget the draft riot of the civil war era ) be only half a numerous and only a third and do that make them any less horrible . be the murder of ten child the hanging of ten men the sexual assault of ten woman any less horrible than the same thing happen to a hundred . iameracing ask u to get the mississippi burn chip off of our shoulder before we see intruder in the dust and well i ask you and do the murder of the civil right activist happen or not . why should that be forget . forgiven . maybe . but in order to prevent their recurrence they can not be forget or revise into minor occurrence . the racism that be display in intruder in the dust be display there quite purposely . it be there to make a point . on a cinematically historical level it be also ridiculous for iameracing to discount the racial angle . any viewer of film that be film before the 1960 know that black actor or character or extra be usually deliberately cast . to judge from our movie history while war be always fight by middle age white men while there be no black people in the old west while it be possible to walk down a street in a major city and never encounter a black person while there be no black hospital orderly and taxi driver and clerk and salespeople etc . black be almost never cast with regard to a role unless race be a factor . if falukner ( and brown ) have want to tell a simple murder story he probably would not have make the hernandez character black . racism exist iameracing . probably for different reason i be sure and we both wish that it do not but it do . want thing to be the way we would like them to be probably can not be help but it still do not make them so .