![]() “Fruitvale Station” tells the real-life tale of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black San Francisco Bay Area resident who was shot by a white transit officer on New Year’s Eve 2008. ![]() The fact that “Fruitvale” is based on a true story provides a unique work beyond the fictional realms of Radio Raheem choked out in “Do the Right Thing” (1989) or Ricky Baker caught in the crossfire in “Boyz n the Hood” (1991). Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, “Fruitvale” is this year’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (2013), two gritty films by debut directors, only this time without the fantasy. This requires a cultural touchstone that’s honest yet fair one that punches us in the gut, then asks us to reflect that invites us, through laughs and tears, to think, grow and transcend our “failure to communicate.” ![]() Occasionally, we need a moment where the trains stop, the doors open and we’re forced to look out at the world around us. We write new pages of that history with each passing day, too often living on different colored Metro lines, zipping in opposite directions and hesitant to single-track. Most of us just lowered our heads at yet another tragic chapter in America’s long, complex history of race. white media storyline despite a Hispanic defendant. Many in black America saw a wave of horrific memories rush to the surface - Emmett Till, Malice Green, Rodney King - while many in white America resented another black vs. Surely it would break along racial lines, O.J.-style, with an array of verbal Molotov cocktails. WASHINGTON – Regardless of your take on the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin verdict, the most troubling thing, aside from the loss of life, was the predictably divisive reaction.
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