Telling scene. Lived in the South most of my life. Hasnt changed much, at least in the rural areas. What gets me is that these racist hillbillies don't get that it isnt the POC keeping them down, it's their gentrified puppet masters that have mansions lining every main street in the small towns. The people that rig the system so that all the money goes to them and nip the system so the poor whites see themselves in competition with the POC, not being oppressed by the rich whites, for jobs, land, opportunities, schools, healthcare you name it. And no, I am not suggesting communism, just REAL capitalism where EVERYONE gets a shot

Gene Hackman=AMERICAN TREASURE

I have lived with black people all over the world and we get along good with each other we even went out to go have breakfast together and they pay for my food I tell them thank you so much and they say anytime man you see black people are good they never cause any trouble at all black or white they are the same

It is unbelievable that this can still go on today but like me u do not see color as a problem not to me but white people see black people as bad and they think that they might want to kill them but me black people are not like that in reality I see them as very very good and nice people

Mississippi Burning maybe a fictional depiction of the events in Philadelphia Miss. In 1964. That said his story about his father killing the black Farmer's Mule sounds very believable.

People have evil 😈 spirits in them 😮.

Thank God society is different now. 😂 Being jealous over a mule?

Because their losers. Great message. 😂

And this is why some people support Trump

Why is audio fast ??? Thumbs down

Trumpers hate this movie.

"Where does it come from? All this hatred?" I once heard someone say about people is that "Ten percent of people are good. Ten percent of people are evil. And, the remaining eighty percent depends on the circumstances."

Two great actors in one of the best movies of the 1980s.

what a brilliant movie

They got them to fight a race war to keep them from fighting a class war

What a great well acted clip.

Great movie.

Because they're small, weak and they think it makes them stronger.

"No, it's not an excuse, just a story about my daddy"

To this Day the Government is still promoting hate and Racism. Now they are using the media as their tool. They Wealthy Elite will never let it stop, or they will lose control.

Gene Hackman was a great actor!

How many times do you have to get jumped by people who annoy you before you learn to watch out? Well, you could also just learn from other people's mistakes. Bottom line is, never relax.

Yes, it was frequently the poor white man that hated his black neighbor most. See To Kill a Mockingbird.

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The quote in this scene is timeless and can be applied to so many modern day problems. The UK is currently being burnt down by the far-right. A black UK born 17 year old of African heritage murdered 3 little girls and injured countless others sparking an uprising from the British white community, mainly the working classes. They’ve rioted in almost every major town and city. Burning out police cars, trying to burn down mosques, pulling foreigners out their cars and setting upon them, attacking police officers and causing countless serious injuries whilst flying the English flag. Some even Nazi saluting. The British far-right are saying it’s in response to the murders of the British young girls by another “foreign invader”. But in reality, the real reason is exactly what is quoted in this video. The white British working classes have been downtrodden for so many years. Their lives are shit, many are uneducated, they have little job opportunities, little to no money and drink heavily to cope. Their hearts are full of hate because their lives are basically worthless in the governments eyes and they don’t know where to channel that anger. So they aim it towards their foreign neighbour, or the black man who lives down the street. Because they feel the same way as his daddy. “If you ain’t better than a ****** who are you better than.” Very sad. Hate only causes more hate.

Great movie that show us hate s always bad obtion

Most times when I look at people of different races I do not look at them as a threat at all I look at them as human I hope sooner or later that racism stops in the future it breaks my heart everytime I watch the news there is another black guy getting killed for no particular reason

To me they were not being used. They really did vanish out therd in Mississippi now down there in that state nothing has changed at all it still goes on just like it did back in the civil rights days it still happens to this day it is ridiculous

Donald Trump and his MAGA acolytes should be required to watch this movie.

50 million of that "old man" now in the US

This is Gold !!

Why hasn’t William DeFoe ever won an Oscar?

Like me I know what it is like when the police pull you over for no reason but if they see a black guy driving around in a car they see them as a threat

Yeah of course that some things are actually worth dying for but to me I do hope that one of these days we can learn to get along with different people of color I never see people as weird to whether black white Mexican or Chinese all of us are the same in the eyes of the law

Envy of a black man was too much for his father to take. Pride comes before the fall.

"Where does it all come from...all this hatred?" Could have led to a whole history lesson of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction eras... This scene helps to explain this...

why do people hate ? well when a politician who is supposed to represent ME took my money and give it to foreigners, thats when hate starts. cheers from germany.

the mother of all scenes, still haunting me after all these years

So… blaming others for our problems is the reason why this hatred exists. 😬

Biden's fault

Very clear explanation

Willam Dafoe looks more like Willam Defriend in this movie..

Brilliant film

great video

This film mistakenly makes the FBI look pro-civil rights - they were the opposite. Many local agents were openly racist and pro-Klan, as was Director Hoover, who tried destroying King and was connected to his assassination.

Racial differences are exploited to divide the American working class. Always have been, and always will be so long as 1% of people own more than 99% of the wealth.

Fear All hate and anger stems from fear

Thanks ❤

"An old man was just so full of hate that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killin' him." This is one of the most important conversaions of the whole movie. And the line just before that: "If you ain't even better than a n-----, son, then who are you better than?" Such a concise summation of one of the root attitudes of racism. It's amazing how much is attached to everyone's own self image, and fascinating how (especially in a racially-based attitude such as this) the hate is not toward someone with a different skin color, but is actually self-hatred. Whoever wrote this part of the script had profound insight.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States