about race

Guido 2022-09-11 10:41:54

A very in-depth documentary. I've always wanted to know the story of black people, and this documentary is undoubtedly a very good entry point. One of the deepest feelings this documentary gave me was art. A perfect mix of music, interviews, film clips, narration, full of calm sadness, full of artistic collision. I couldn't help but admire the background music and various interviews, speeches, and movie clips interspersed again and again, so exciting and integrated. I watched this documentary really slowly, because I couldn't help but pause and transcribe some of the passages. I even read some sentences at the time, but did not write them down. After reading for ten minutes or twenty minutes, I was still worried, so I had to go back and record them again. The tone of this narration is very similar to the first article in our Zongying 5, The Fourth of July, that kind of light and calm tone that hides great sadness and faith. It's a pity that I didn't see this documentary before I learned this article, otherwise I would probably have a deeper understanding when I learned this article. I am also very fortunate to have discovered this documentary, which gave me a deeper understanding of the history of black people and the suffering of black people.

All I can do is to listen more, see more, feel more, and explore the depths of this world, those corners I have never seen before, what has happened there, what is happening, what will happen...

Another great achievement is that I have an understanding of Americans' traditional habit of focusing on privacy, which is what the film says, I always been struck , in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless and a terror of human life of human touch so deep that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable organic connection between his public stance and his private life.

Some other words are also very moving,

s hatred is rage. The root of the white man's hatred is terror. The root of the white man's hatred is terror. The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance , which is the price we pay for segregation, that's what segregation means. You don't know what happening the other side of the wall because you don't want to know.

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I Am Not Your Negro quotes

  • James Baldwin: I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I'm forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

    James Baldwin: But the Negro in this country... the future of the Negro in this country... is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country. It is entirely up to the American people and not representatives. It is entirely up to the American people whether or not they are going to face and deal with and embrace the stranger they have maligned so long.

  • James Baldwin: Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience. People have quite enough reality to bear, by simply getting through their lives, raising their children, dealing with the eternal conundrums of birth, taxes, and death.