I Am Not Your Negro
by Paulette Reynolds
March 26, 2017
Magnolia Pictures
Documentary
Director: Raoul Peck
Screenplay: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
Based on Remember This House by James Baldwin
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson
by Paulette Reynolds
March 26, 2017
Magnolia Pictures
Documentary
Director: Raoul Peck
Screenplay: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
Based on Remember This House by James Baldwin
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson
Raoul Peck's journey of author and activist James Baldwin's exploration into the history of American racism through the three men that inspired him - Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Director Peck blends Baldwin's words, documentary footage and cinematic images to create a contemporary narrative of The Otherness of Black and White America.
Baldwin wrote his observations about the impact of these three slain civil rights heroes upon the American landscape. He challenges our political comfort zone while he castigates his own inactivity, which he forced himself out of in the midst of marches and speeches.
Peck explores the social constraints upon blacks through the lens of white entitlement, especially Baldwin's cynicism towards the liberal administration of the Kennedy brothers. Each assassination sees James Baldwin moving through his levels of grief and anger to become more outspoken, ripping the white power structure's efforts to pacify audiences into national complacency.
Baldwin wrote his observations about the impact of these three slain civil rights heroes upon the American landscape. He challenges our political comfort zone while he castigates his own inactivity, which he forced himself out of in the midst of marches and speeches.
Peck explores the social constraints upon blacks through the lens of white entitlement, especially Baldwin's cynicism towards the liberal administration of the Kennedy brothers. Each assassination sees James Baldwin moving through his levels of grief and anger to become more outspoken, ripping the white power structure's efforts to pacify audiences into national complacency.
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