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Myles 2022-09-10 18:23:42
Unsolved racial issues
The two passages from James Baldwin in the film are shocking, excerpted below.
When the Israelis pick up guns,' 'or the Poles or the Irish or any white man in the world says 'Give me liberty or give me death,' the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for...
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Alberto 2022-09-10 22:26:26
false ethnic fusion
The film is based on James Baldwin's posthumous manuscript. The narration in it is the content of the manuscript. Most of the pictures used in it are real video photos, so most of them are black and white photos, and some videos are even deliberately processed into black and white. Because it was...
H. Rap Brown
Extended Reading
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James Baldwin: ...a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.
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James Baldwin: It comes as a great shock, around the age of five or six or seven, to discover that Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, when you were rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians were you. It comes as a great shock to discover the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity has not in its whole system of reality evolved any place for you.
