![]() ![]() In general, Parson's takes on Wilson these last two or three years have been less referential and mellow than the work of other directors. ![]() Solly is the one offering Citizen a road map to love and happiness with Black Mary. Wilson), a guy who makes a living collecting dog waste to be sold as fuel, but whose prosaic occupation does not obscure his moral authority as a role model for Citizen. In the middle are Black Mary (Tyla Abercrumbie), a wise young woman who maybe could love herself a Citizen, if he rights his personal ship and Solly Two Kings (Alfred H. ![]() On the other side of the Wilson moral gulf is Caesar Wilks (David Alan Anderson, who is terrifying in his sense of rectitude), a black police officer enforcing racist laws without regard for history. Wilson's themes are reflected through the protagonist, Citizen Barlow (Jerod Haynes, who is turning into one of the best darn actors in the city), a young drifter with a past who says he wants to cleanse his soul, but who really has to learn what makes a man feel right with himself. Not in 1904, when the South was desperate to stop its newly freed labor force from escaping to the North. The other is that moral rectitude and following the laws and common practices of white America are not always the same. As I wrote after Wilson's death, one is that salvation comes only to those who pay homage to the sacrifices of their ancestors and to those who are honest enough to admit they could have done nothing whatsoever all by themselves. ![]()
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