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I saw 'I am not your Negro' (which the article is largely about) a couple weeks ago; it's fantastic. It's mainly am unpublished Baldwin piece on the deaths of
by sdenton4 10y ago
I saw 'I am not your Negro' (which the article is largely about) a couple weeks ago; it's fantastic. It's mainly am unpublished Baldwin piece on the deaths of MLK, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers read by Samuel Jackson.
There's a good deal of media and especially cinema criticism in the piece; looking at American culture through The eyes of it's film. The movie incorporates clips of many of the pieces referenced, ones I'm a generation to young to know, which helps bridge the generational gap. It's an excellent technique.
And the subject matter - extrajudicial killings of black men - is still extremely relevant, of course.
- jmduke 10y agoI too thought the movie was compelling, and well worth the watch -- perhaps its most powerful segment, at least to me, was the contrast of clips of police brutality, riots, and demonstrations alongside traditional/nuclear family advertisements. Here's the entirety of the roundtable between Baldwin, Poitier, and others (shown briefly in the film), which I found fascinating and, in many ways, as relevant as ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7Cr0HtiJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7Cr0HtiJI