The Great Debaters
Last weekend I was with some good friends in Michigan at a theater we rented out where we got to watch, “The Great Debaters.” I think I would really recommend it to anyone. It’s a pretty serious movie but has good message and is something everyone should probably be reminded of. What’s interesting though is my C & T class is going through an African-American experience module right now. We’ve covered a lot of literature from people like Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. So in the movie when Denzel (who is the intellectual teacher of an all black boarding school) stands up on a desk and recites a poem in which he immediately demands for the author. No one else in the theater was in C & T, but I was able to beat the students in the movie by shouting, “Langston Hughes!” So I have to admit I had a bit of an ego, but I can never remember facts or names at the drop of a pin.

