Educational, Enlightening, Entertaining, AND…Profound: Dinesh D’Souza’s AMERICA

Nobody Flashes

“I didn’t know that!” said my friend, Ruth.

She was talking about the fact that blacks owned as many slave plantations in the old South as whites did. I had never heard of it either. That historical fact alone made the movie “America” worth the money. And the movie was full of such facts. It made me wonder just how many OTHER facts have been left out of history.

That was a rather BIG one.

I was so glad when my friend Ruth said she would go with me to see Dinesh D’souza’s movie, “America.” We were like two little schools girls before the movie started: giggling about the black rappers…the commercials….

“I can’t understand a word they said.” she said. “I can play REAL music…I can play, “To Dream the Impossible Dream.” And so she does. Ruth is 89, and has an organ in her living room worth over $50,000. It’s her passion since her husband died. Some UFO will certainly beam it up one day. It looks like the Star Ship Enterprise.

When she saw an ad with gay people she said, “They are forcing this gay stuff, and it makes a mockery of my marriage!” She told me about her husband…how she had met him, in Berlin, right after the war.

Ruth was 16 and living in Dresden when the bombs were dropped. She was raped by the Russians, (repeatedly, as they all the women were) and thrown into a Russian prison. She and her girlfriend managed to escape by digging their way out. They walked miles back to Germany, just in time to be put to work picking up the dead Jewish bodies, and recording the numbers on the dead body’s arms.

Not long after that, a young American GI, saw her one day, and it was love at first sight for him. Her father encouraged her to date him, and she told me how she wore gloves on their first date, and how far he had to drive to pick her up.

She married that G.I., moved to America, and became an American citizen. The legal way.

So, you can imagine, how honored I was, to have an immigrant who by her own words admitted, “Sometimes I think I love America more than many Americans.” by my side.

I will try not to give the movie away, but to say that Dinesh captures the “idea” of America perfectly. He does something that our GOP doesn’t do: He takes the liberal arguments against American one by one, and shows you, the real truth. He does it without trashing anyone. Like the great man that he is, (For its ONLY the great ones of history that do this.) he simply shows you the truth, and why everyone should fight for it. And he does it with pure logic.

More importantly, the movie WILL inspire you to not give up. In a world, where we have no prominent leaders to lead us against the insanity of Obama and Hillary, he reminds us, we have ourselves.

One of my favorite, ( and surprising)  moments in the movie, was this speech by Bono.

Enjoy! And for goodness sakes, GO SEE, AMERICA! As my friend Ruth said, after the movie was over…

“That was…profound.”

July 13, 2014 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized