Film Summary: Observing Lyle's Life

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The minister’s goal was to get all his black students in the same room to allow them to experience how hurtful it is to humiliate someone. Not only the minister wants his black students to feel cultural-bias, he wants his students to have a sense of supremacy over another race. To allow them to feel the dominant power over another human being.

Lyle and Jo’s relationship appears to be wobbly as a walking baby. Although relationships have their ups and downs, I feel Lyle has created a barrier of persistent lies, distrusts, and his abilities to manipulate all boundaries. Lyle’s business is struggling to survive. He tells his wife that he wants to expand to other locations. Does this sound reasonable? A logical business person would suggest to cut cost or close the business down not to branch out as Lyle tells Jo. His whole rationale makes me believe he is hypocrite.
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But I think Parnell is also having some suspicions over his best buddy Lyle. Despite Parnell is a white person, he has been fighting long and hard for the black communities. I think Parnell’s goal for asking those tough questions was to get to the truth. Who was responsible for Richard’s death? As for Lyle’s claims he has “nothing against colored folks” are absolutely untrue. He is a racist against people of color. Lyle says, “has niggers suddenly got to be holy in this town” (14). What malicious way of referencing a human

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