{"id":3702,"date":"2016-11-14T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2016-11-14T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T18:43:28","slug":"miss-peregrine-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2016\/11\/miss-peregrine-black.html","title":{"rendered":"Miss Peregrine should be black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/a> (2016) scored big in imagination and ingenuity. The plotline follows Jacob, a young teen, to a faraway land of fantasy and chilling monsters.<\/p>\n

My first thought: I would NEVER take my kids to this movie.<\/p>\n

Second thought: Why, or why was a black man cast as the bad guy? Actor, Samuel Jackson portrayed Barron, a demonic twisted soul with white eyes. I don\u2019t recall any other black people in the film.<\/p>\n

I watched the film in a theater with no black people. I live in an embarrassingly homogenous white community. I couldn\u2019t hardly sit through the film as I watched, not the film, but the audience\u2019s children, staring at the massive screen images of a forbidding, menacing guy, black as ever.<\/p>\n

At the end, I survived the film and will admit I got a kick out of the time-loop idea. Miss Peregrine and her household were in a 1934 time-loop that lasted 24 hours.<\/p>\n

But, I give the casting director a bottom score for casting a black<\/a> man as the bad guy. I give Samuel Jackson a thump for taking the part.<\/p>\n

From 21st Century Science and Health<\/a>, “<\/em>Ignorance, arrogance, or prejudice closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.<\/p>\n

“All persons must fulfill their own mission without timidity and without putting on a show. Spiritual goals are successfully achieved when our work is done unselfishly, and as a result, arrogance, prejudice, bigotry, and envy cannot wash away its foundation, for it is built on the rock, Truth.<\/p>\n

“At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know yourself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Love is a protective covering. Wear it! Wrapped up in love, human hatred can\u2019t reach you. The confirmation of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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