I got to see I am not your Negro last night. Highly recommend. The film to me was a mirror to America. The triad of Malcolm, Martin, and Medgar are juxtaposed with Baldwin's artistry and human presence to plant the seed of questioning of how white America can justify the presupposition of entitlement to treat black America and indigenous America as lesser. The burden of the premise is shifted into the consciousness of the viewer to juxtapose the illusions of Doris Day and Gary Cooper with the realities of lynchings and slavery to pivot the surrealism into a pallid mirror to the shininess of 1950's white-washed appliances and picket fences. The statement I am a man is revolutionary to the insanity of the premise of supremacy and echoes poignantly into the present. Frankly put this movie is not so much about Baldwin or his life or story, but the power in his words for a white American audience to look in the mirror to what a black American audience has long known and lived. Given the current state of our government I hope people support this art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM
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