Tar Heel Before Zod
18. Feb, 2010 
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Blood Done Sign My Name
Racial Divide & Conquer
Trailer & Mo
On May 11th, 1970, a black man named Henry ‘Dickie’ Marrow was murdered (for no good reason) in Oxford, North Carolina, in broad night-light by three white men (one played by Lee Norris, who got plugged by the Zodiac killer in the opening of Fincher’s flick). This single event would spark the long-boiling fire smoldering within the black community and spring them into action, to no longer walk and be treated as second class citizens in an area still heavily segregated. Blood Done Sign My Name is the needed to be told tale of the preceding and post…ceding chain of events, written by Tim Tyson, who saw all of this unfold before his very young and innocent eyes. Tyson was the son of a newly arrived to town white preacher (hey, it’s Rick Schroder, and he’s purty darn good at this acting thing!), who was a bit more racially open than what the townsfolk were used to at the time, but hey, the times, they were a changin’, whether they liked it or not
While the film’s opening devotes a lil too much attention to the settling in of the Tyson family in their new surroundings, the focus rightfully shifts to the black community after Marrow’s murder, and sticks with it right up until the typical courtroom finale, which will either close the case for good or fling it wide open for further outrage (we’re not telling!). Led by local teacher Ben Chavis (Great Debater‘ Nate Parker), with a lotta help from an outside rebel rousing spiritual guide (Afemo Omilami), the community (sorry, but we can’t think of another word to use here) bands together and they shall/will overcome!! The Jeb Stuart (can his name be any more southern?) directed affair is purty rudimentary and reeks of production values straight outta a TV movie of the week, but the story and its message is anything but a TV movie of the weak
Tyson’s Cornered: there’s two sides to every story, and this dude aint buying Tim Tyson’s version one bit
Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers
Blood done get played in limited release starting tomorrow
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
