Finally a GOOD free movie
on my flight !
A true story…
My favorite part came
about halfway through the movie. Leading lady, with hair sopping wet comes
dashing into the office space and the big boss says
" where have you been".
It is quiet and he continues
“ Where have you been?
Everywhere I look you're not where I need you to be. And it's not my
imagination.”
She freezes
“Where do you go everyday?”
She answers (quietly) “The bathroom,
sir. “
He shouts “The bathroom! The damn bathroom! “
She responds, “ Yes, sir. The bathroom.”
He says “For
40 minutes a day!? What do you do in there!? We are T-minus zero here. I put a
lot of faith in you.”
. She whispers: There’s no bathroom for me here.”
He shouts “There’s no bathroom? What do you mean there’s no bathroom for you
here? “
Her voice rises. “ There’s no bathroom
here. There are no COLORED bathrooms in this building or ANY building outside
the West Campus. Which is half a mile away! Did you know that? I have to walk
to Timbuktu just to relieve myself! And I can’t take one of the handy bikes.
Picture that, with my uniform: skirt below the knees and my heels. And don’t
get me started about the “simple pearl necklace” I can’t afford. Lord knows you
don’t pay “the coloreds enough for that. And I work like a dog day and night,
living on coffee from a coffee pot half of you don’t want me to touch! So
excuse me if I have to go to the restroom a few times a day!”
And by then she is talking loudly
and tears are
running down her
cheeks and mine.
You can hear a pin drop
second favorite part.
She tells the big man in charge "
You are the boss,
you just have to act like it.”
In the final scenes...well, you will just have to catch it
yourself.
There is never I place I wanted to fast forward. Moves along
well. Does not reveal the other kinds of harsh treatment that
was
suffered by black people. There is hurt, but these are
strong women, very
strong, and smart, very smart.
