I finally got to watch Sinners. Oh my goodness the music! And the way the story came together. It was good.

And I told some friends I saw it, and they had also seen it and they did not like it. They said they had gone into it expecting a certain kind of movie and they felt like instead of getting that, they got something packed full of "woke."

I am really disappointed. I didn't know this about them.

They said it was heavy handed and racial stuff was jammed into the movie.

I'm mystified. It's a story about black people in the U.S. south, in the 30s. There are certain things that were happening then.

Do my friends think things were different in that time period, in that location, then what the film portrayed? Not the supernatural part, but the mundane stuff.

Do they think white people behaved differently in that place and time than they were portrayed in that movie?

Do they think the Klan is just made up or maybe strongly exaggerated?

I'm not going to cut ties, but I'm going to be a lot more deliberate about sharing true historical events. Like what happened in Tulsa in 1921 and in Philadelphia in 1985. I'm still hopeful that they just don't have that knowledge, and that learning more history will help shift their view.

@AngelaPreston

I loved that movie. An amazing mash-up of genres, great acting, and transcendent music.

The way your friends responded … sounds very upsetting. I’d feel very disoriented for a bit figuring out what to do and how to respond.