Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) scored big in imagination and ingenuity. The plotline follows Jacob, a young teen, to a faraway land of fantasy and chilling monsters.

My first thought: I would NEVER take my kids to this movie.

Second thought: Why, or why was a black man cast as the bad guy? Actor, Samuel Jackson portrayed Barron, a demonic twisted soul with white eyes. I don’t recall any other black people in the film.

I watched the film in a theater with no black people. I live in an embarrassingly homogenous white community. I couldn’t hardly sit through the film as I watched, not the film, but the audience’s children, staring at the massive screen images of a forbidding, menacing guy, black as ever.

At the end, I survived the film and will admit I got a kick out of the time-loop idea. Miss Peregrine and her household were in a 1934 time-loop that lasted 24 hours.

But, I give the casting director a bottom score for casting a black man as the bad guy. I give Samuel Jackson a thump for taking the part.

From 21st Century Science and Health, “Ignorance, arrogance, or prejudice closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped.

“All persons must fulfill their own mission without timidity and without putting on a show. Spiritual goals are successfully achieved when our work is done unselfishly, and as a result, arrogance, prejudice, bigotry, and envy cannot wash away its foundation, for it is built on the rock, Truth.

“At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know yourself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Love is a protective covering. Wear it! Wrapped up in love, human hatred can’t reach you. The confirmation of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.”