Wait. Have you actually seen the movie or only watched the trailer?

Ok, that is a point. Black people did laugh (some black people) and some were just happy to see something who looked liked them depicted in everyday stories.

How much do today's tweens and teenagers know about the Jim Crow era? It is invaluable to see this depicted and to give a generation who was not there the sense of what their grandmothers and grandfathers faced. This movie is not perfect, but merely the truth of black women who played a pivotal role in the space…

I suspect that the same kind of mindset that in the 1960s, would have accepted the racism of Jim Crow and separate accommodations, today declares that the movie Hidden Figures is weak and crowd-pleasing. The critics who dismiss the accomplishment of these fine actresses and the writers and director suffer from a…