Lynching

After his debut as director in 2002, Denzel Washington goes on to direct his second movie, The Great Debaters in 2007. The movie uses the power of words.

The faulty assumption, classic fallacy. "The unemployed are starving" Mr Burgess is unemployed, but he is not starving.

The irony in the name Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Bethlehem Steel Corp makes weapon of war.

Who is the judge?
The judge is God.
Why is he God?
Because he decides who wins or loses, not my opponent.
Who is your OPPONENT?
He does not exist.
Why doesn't he EXIST?
Because he is just a dissenting voice to the truth I speak.

When a hungry Negro steals a chicken, he goes to jail.
When a rich business man steal bonds, he goes to Congress.

The movie also mentioned "lynching" originated from Willie Lynch, a white slave owner and a mysterious 18th century businessman. He developed the process of breaking a slave, a technique for taming and subduing a man to behave like a slave similar to the process of taming a wild horse.