"u think dollars, u get dollars..."

today i saw a movie about Ray Charles. those who haven't seen it yet just MUST watch it!it's inspirational, influencial, amazing..it brought me different thoughts to my mind and feelings inside me..i was watchin it in one of my classes and i realized to day how many young people in Lithuania are still not aware of much stuff going on in the world. almost none of them knew the history of African-Americans and that's how all the misunderstandings come from..no one teach us at school about discrimination, racism, diversity and things like that..they are really important but here we sit in our small country and the government thinks that we don't need it because we have no minorities in the country..so those who saw this movie probably remember this place which shows how Ray gets on a bus in like 1948 and sits in the back because the second part of the bus has a card wich says "coloured" and segregates black people from the whites..everytime i see such thing it hurts somewhere inside i don't kno why tho but it does...i've studied African-Americans' history in the US and many things about them but the whole class started laughing!!!when i asked one girl sitting next to me what's so funny?! she replied: "oh did you see there's a table which says "coloured"! it's just so funny!" sorry but i didn't see anything funny in this situation i just thought in my head "if you just knew something more about that period of time.." i guess it's easy for us to speak such things when we've never experienced anything similar...but if you think about people you know of colour (i hope you kno some) and how this historical period touched their families, it aint funny at all...
this was a movie that while watching Ray playing his first notes reminded my first steps in music world, how me being little started to play the piano and how this is still going on..this is a movie with big names such as Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton and others who were great jazz musicians and that im familiar with from my jazz history classes..this is also a movie that touches not only issues of blacks being discriminated but also of these people being segregated from everyone else..it's just an amazing movie which is based on a true story that teach you a lot and while watchin you start thinking deeper about your life...you just have to see it!