The Best Of Enemies

A few weeks ago we watched a movie, just recently released;
Its title is “The Best Of Enemies”, it made our hearts so pleased!
For it is based on a true story, from nineteen seventy-one;
Dealing with racial hatred, and how its healing was begun!
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Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell, play two adversaries;
Their purpose on this planet, as different as could be!
She’s a black woman with an agenda, to integrate local schools;
He’s the President of the County’s KKK, such opposites bring fire fueled!
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But a black man comes to mediate, a true specialist in his field;
To amend the racial differences, so long have been congealed!
As the movie interestingly progresses, the racist sees the light;
It comes down to the final vote for desegregation, the hater makes things right!
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He votes yes to bring whites and blacks together, to integrate their schools;
His KKK Clan boycotts his gas station, but his new black friends buy all his fuel!
At the movies end, they show the real people, “The Best Of Enemies”;
Their differences all forgotten, thirty years, as close as they could be!
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Sometimes it happens
That a foe becomes a friend
Bias Disappears