>LaLee's Kin is about hope and how we managed to survive in
>spite of conditions. Our "family structure" was broken down
>with the middle passage and slavery.

see post 13. This is a common misconception, and it's simply not true. Herbert G. Gutman showed that the Black Family remained strong throughout as well as after slavery. Granted, the black family has never been "Leave it to Beaver," but it has deteriorated now worse then it's ever been in history.

The film highlights how
>the effects of slavery and sharecropping have prevented one
>community from coming out of poverty. There are communities
>like this all over the U.S. and still people choose to look no
>further than their front yard. It's like folks have blinders
>on or something. Ignorance.

Slavery and sharecropping don't explain the situation this family is in. Where are the fathers?? Where are the mothers for that matter? If these children had their parents, they would not be as poor, their household would likely be more stable, the would be more diciplined, and they would have a better chance at life. As of right now, those children have little to no chance of making it anywhere.

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"What shall we do with the negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us...if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall - Frederick Douglass