Intruder in the Dust (1949)

By RM
saturday, july 19, 2025 at 1:06:00 a.m. edt

I recall Intruder in the Dust as being extremely well-made, but it's something I wouldn't watch again because I can't take that kind of propaganda any more.

I recently read an article about Faulkner, where he called slavery "a curse" and said "racism haunts the South."

Funny that slavery is only a "curse" for the USA, and not for any other country where slaves were held (or are still held, even today). Do the arabs, the biggest enslavers, lie awake at night fretting over slavery? Or the indians (oh, excuse me, "native americans"), who enslaved Whites, mexicans, and members of enemy tribes? What about the British, who kidnapped people off the streets-including children!-and shipped them off to the colonies to work as indentured servants?

We had the greatest country in the world, the one that did the most for people of all kinds, everywhere-and we were targeted for destruction.

-RM