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Bezig met laden... I Am Not Your Negro [2016 film]door Raoul Peck (Director), James Baldwin (Writer)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I expected a James Baldwin book. I can see that the movie is probably great. But, was this a script or accompanying literature? I'm not sure was it was but I know that I wish I'd spent the time watching the movie because I probably would have liked it more. I'm moving on to actual Baldwin. ( ) I heard about the movie, but had no idea there was a companion book to it. "In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America." The writing, essays, the photos that were used are powerful and makes one want to hang your head down and wonder when will we get to that mountaintop where all men and women are seen as equal no matter the color of their skin? We have a US President and conservative based Congress that think racism is okay. They think if they are not calling black people, those who worship differently than them a slur that it's okay. It's like watching everything slowly grind to a halt and you want everyone to just wake up. Call a thing the name that it is. It's racism. We have ignored it for too long and we don't seem to care to change. Baldwin's writing is electrifying. It gets in your blood and in your head and I find myself nodding my head and feeling nothing but sorrow because in 2019 we have not come far enough. To think we are pushing ourselves back to a time in this country where we are once again seen as "other" and "wrong" I don't know what we do to combat it. "JAMES BALDWIN: Well, I don’t think there’s much hope for it, you know, to tell you the truth as long as people are using this peculiar language. It’s not a question of what happens to the Negro here or to the black man here—that’s a very vivid question for me, you know—but the real question is what is going to happen to this country. I have to repeat that." I end on this. I am a black woman, when you tell me you don't see my color or it's unimportant, you are telling me you don't see me, that I am not important. When the default color is white and Christian you ignore what makes up this country of ours. To speak out against what we see is wrong is the American thing to do. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In deze Belgische co-productie vertrekt Raoul Peck van de onafgewerkte roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Baldwin "Remember this house" voor een reis door de zwarte geschiedenis die de Burgerrechtenbeweging uit de jaren zestig verbindt met het huidige #BlackLivesMatter. De tekst, geschreven in 1979, is helaas nog altijd heel actueel en bespreekt een racisme dat veel dieper geworteld is, een fundamenteel gevoel waarbij men de andere niet in zijn menselijkheid wil aanvaarden. De film is een treffend betoog op basis van archiefbeelden, filmfragmenten en actuele nieuwsbeelden die aan elkaar gepraat worden door de bezwerende stem van Samuel L. Jackson Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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