QuoteFilmmaker Raoul Peck (Lumumba) went through 30 different titles before he zeroed in on I Am Not Your Negro, a defiant declaration illustrative of the work of influential author James Baldwin, whose unpublished letters form the foundation of this year?s most incendiary cinematic call to action. The title also serves as an acute distillation of how systemic racism has cultivated inequality for centuries across the African-American experience, hammered home in the film?s first few moments as Baldwin?s words ring over images from Ferguson as painfully accurate as they were 50 years ago.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/30/i-am-not-your-negro-how-hollywood-failed-black-america.htmlSuch an important and timely piece of work. Can't wait to check this out.
