{"id":112350,"date":"2023-04-28T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=112350"},"modified":"2023-04-28T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T16:37:37","slug":"documentary-reveals-how-two-charlotte-men-discovered-an-ugly-past-and-confronted-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=112350","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Documentary Reveals How Two Charlotte Men Discovered an Ugly Past and Confronted It.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/article274387420.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Observer<\/a>: &#8220;When the final credits faded, and a once-darkened theater inside a near-capacity Independent Picture House in NoDa slowly regained light, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick were adorned with applause and overwhelming praise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A feature documentary entitled \u201cA Binding Truth\u201d explored the emotional journey of men at opposite ends of the racial spectrum immersed in a yearslong search for ancestral truths that connected them and gnawed at their spirits gripped the audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kirkpatricks \u2014 Jimmie Lee, a Black man; De, white \u2014 grew up in Charlotte, sharing a last name and graduating from Myers Park High School together a half-century ago. De was from a blue-collar family in a middle-class neighborhood in Dilworth; Jimmie Lee lived in the Black neighborhood of Grier Town, now known as Grier Heights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the film, which was shown last week in Charlotte during private screenings, was inspired by a series of articles by former Charlotte Observer reporters Gary Schwab and David Scott about the Kirkpatrick\u2019s ties through slavery, the tale ultimately is an examination of America\u2019s struggles to reconcile a history shaped by racism and how people can move forward despite of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Observer: &#8220;When the final credits faded, and a once-darkened theater inside a near-capacity Independent Picture House in NoDa slowly regained light, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick were adorned with applause and overwhelming praise. A feature documentary entitled \u201cA Binding Truth\u201d explored the emotional journey of men at opposite ends of the racial spectrum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112351,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112350\/revisions\/112351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}