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000655661YeahDog. Yes. Sure. Top of Top. I was able to get it on track. I would not call that ideal. I would call that "near-ideal". Though if I do everything by the book, it could get better. We'll see.Play (at 3:45) When and where: Thursday, March 2, at the Paramount Theater, 333 N. Central St., Sacramento. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets: $30-$85, with discounts for students, seniors and active military. (The University of Sacramento, 951 Capitol Ave., Sacto, will host a screening of “Selma” at 7 p.m. today.) Wait — didn’t “Selma” open last weekend? Yes, but I didn’t see it. And, I’m not one to criticize a film that opens right after a tragic event that has struck the nation, but one way to look at the Oscar-winning civil rights drama is that, in its first week in theaters, “Selma” has largely benefited from the narrative created by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” The very definition of “Selma,” as critics have pointed out, is the “salt of the earth” movement. Arguably, King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” is the first race film. It was actually a series of letters written by the civil rights leader to prominent white clergy members in an attempt to persuade them that, despite their earlier beliefs, racial integration would benefit their churches and society. King was specifically arguing that race segregation was not only spiritually wrong but also that the moral structure of the country would be damaged if racial integration wasn’t instituted. “I am convinced that if this nation is to be saved,” King wrote, “it can be saved only through the kind of sacrifice and suffering experienced by all the people of the South. And this is this sacrifice and suffering that I and others are made to bear.” The film follows the civil rights leader’s historic trip to Selma, Ala., in 1965. There, he joins a peaceful movement that includes ordinary people — the exact antithesis of the violent racist riot that follows. The symbolism of those events couldn’t be clearer. In his writings, King made his


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