POSSE | THE COWBOYS AND THE INDIANS

Damn this could be a photo of my great grandparents.

I'm really feeling this movie, cause when I research my family background I find out that my ancestors were the Cowboys and Indians, straight up.  I've seen photos from the 1800's of my great-great's sitting on horses with guns and cowboy hats/boots.  I know for a fact that my great grandfather was a Blackfoot Indian.

Thing is, my ancestors are Black (Moors).  Most Black Americans have no idea that this part of our history even exists.  They don't know that Black people were living in the Americas way before Christopher Columbo set foot over here.  Most people have no idea, as the movie points out, that most Cowboys were Black!  Matter of fact Black people in North America had everyone else outnumbered until the great migration of European immigrants in the early 1900's that came through Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty) in New York.  Taking this fact into Consideration and it makes sense that most Cowboys and Indians would be Black people.

This is a great film though, check it out.  Let the kids watch it (I tell mine its about their great, great grandfather. LOL).  WE HAVE TO TELL OUR OWN STORIES BECAUSE NOONE ELSE IS GOING TO TELL IT RIGHT!

Okay I'm through lecturing...

Director: Mario Van Peebles
Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Salli Richardson, Blair Underwood, Tiny Lister, Big Daddy Kane, Tone Loc, Pam Grier, Isaac Hayes, Faizon Love, Nipsey Russell, Stephen Baldwin and Billy Zane
Production land: UK, USA
Premiere Date: 14 May 1993 USA
IMDb

Synopsis: 1993 American Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles. Featuring a large ensemble cast of mostly African-American actors, the film is about a posse of black soldiers and one ostracized white soldier, who are all betrayed by a corrupt colonel. The title of the film refers to a group of people who are summoned to help law enforcement officers. The story starts with the group