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I Don't Blame Sarah Jane!!!




Why should she take a back seat to others in Life based on the color of her skin?



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It goes deeper. Why should she not have the choice to work in a strip club, regardless of her skin color. Nothing horrible is going to happen to her.

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Why should she have to lie about who she really is???

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why lie? So she could get hired, and because it's 1959. Have none of us harmlessly fibbed on an application? She wasn't going to convince the strip-club owner to hire her by being "honest"

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It doesn't matter, she still shouldn't have treated her mother that way. At that age, whose mom doesn't get on their nerves? And things do have a way of coming out Plus she wanted to pretend to be white for what? To work in sleazy clubs not to get a real career.

"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"

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Well of course she realized to late she shouldn't have treated mom like that, thus one of the most famous funeral scenes in cinema history.

As far a career realize newspaper classified ads for jobs still said things like "White" or "Colored" still in 1959. You don't really think she aspired to work there do you?

Ephemeron.

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A hot girl like her can not be blamed for anything.

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I totally agree! The whole race situation in this movie is ugly. Poor Sarah Jane and poor Annie! I like how Sarah Jane's only ticket to a better life is the colored teachers college. What if she doesn't want to be a teacher? Thank God times have changed.

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She was half white, and looked completely white. Yet she was expected to take a back seat to others in life in spite of the color of her skin.

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