The movie Glory is, as the historian James M. McPherson has written, the most powerful and historically accurate film ever made about the American Civil War. But Glory, which tells the story of one of the war's first black regiments, has deeper meaning. The movie addresses the most profound theme of race in America in 1990. Glory is about black manhood and responsibility.
The worst problems of the black underclass today -- young black men murdering other young black men; young black males fathering children of females who are virtually children themselves; young blacks lost to crack and heroin -- all...
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