Re:i saw it... (Score 1)

I know the film changed how I think about some things. The most powerful scene for me was when the members of the Congressional Black Caucus got up to protest the official certification of the 2000 election, and not single senator (i.e., white guys) would stand up for them.

I believed that racism was something that our leaders wanted to stamp out. Now, I think that outrage by white politicians over racism is largely feigned. They don't really care, but they want to look like they do (or to not look like they don't). After the 2000 election, the way the wind was blowin', you were some whining liberal who couldn't get over it if you were still calling for recounts and contesting the results. So no senator wanted to risk that to stand up for what was a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise black voters in Florida.

I believed the networks were primarily lazy for not picking up many of the stories that aren't told. This scene in Congress, which I had not seen before, made me realize that even when the story is right in front of their faces, the media *chooses* the news very carefully. They had collectively decided to support the 2000 election results. To show protest by black congressmen and a lack of support by their white colleagues might have opened a Pandora's box.