"I'm Not Your Negro" is based on writer James Baldwin's unfinished recollection of the civil rights movement trio of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s manuscript Remembering Documentary by Remember This House. The film is run through Baldwin's narration, using a lot of documentary material, film material, image material, with hurt personal voices, criticizing racism and American culture. "History is not the past, it's the present," Baldwin said. "If we take on our history, we are our own history. If we don't, we are effectively sinners." He criticized racists for their original guilt, Their cowardice, their blindness, their false illusion of self-isolation, have created a terrifying country where everyone cannot participate, where there is no future and no ideals. Assuming that I am a middle school or university teacher, or a civic teacher, I will watch this movie with my classmates and recite every sentence of the movie word by word. This movie was recommended to me by the dean of our college, and I think everyone should see it.
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