Four Little Girls

Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls is a movie that is very important to black history. I’m glad that Lee was the filmmaker to take on this project and tell this story. He was the perfect person for the job from a film standpoint as well as a historical standpoint. As I was watching old interviews of his on YouTube where he discussed the movie, I came across this quite comical one. The link is at the end of the post. In this interview he talks about the interview from the movie with George Wallace. In Wallace’s interview he calls over his black “friend” as a way to testify that he is no longer a racist bigot. The scene in the movie is funny but at the same time it’s kind of messed up. It’s funny because it’s an awkward yet authentic exchange between the black nurse, Ed, and George Wallace. Ed is visibly uncomfortable with the situation and as Lee points out in his interview, he has a tough job. I’m wondering how he got in the position to be George Wallace’s nurse. That in itself is comical to me. I’d like to avoid saying anything along the lines of “look at how far we’ve come”, but it was interesting that a black filmmaker was interviewing a white former governor who was responsible for horrible acts of racism, for a movie about the bombing of a church, an act of terror, that killed four little girls.

-Jada