Race Through History
"I am Not Your Negro" is a documentary on the history of racism in the United States, which is based on James Baldwins 30 pages of notes. He was writing a memoir of three of his close friends lives. They were civil rights leaders known as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers. This documentary is narrated by Samuel Jackson and HERE he speaks to his experience on Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show in January, 2017. James Baldwin was writing in Paris when he realized he never missed anything American, yet missed his family terribly. It wasn't until then he realized he needed to go home and pay his dues. His friends were being assassinated for a cause that he believed in, but was removed from. While watching this documentary, I realized how this is still so much a part of our lives today. The United States calls itself the land of the free, yet there is still so much oppression , racism, and prejudice in our world. This film parallels our current movement know...