I Am Not Your Negro (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #49 extract: I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Undoubtedly the most sincere and true documentary and statement on black history as American history that I've ever come across. 

Inspired by/adapted from James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, I Am Not Your Negro collects footage of Baldwin and of American films to explore the face of American culture as a persona - one that has been disavowed by and disavows the American self. Not necessarily about hatred and/or love, I Am Not Your Negro is about moral poverty and wilful blindness. This absence and imperception is not commented on at the individual level, but at the macroscopic and societal level. Placing fault above the head of a culture, I Am Not Your Negro asks all individuals within to change, to look up and look within, and dare to speak, hear and do honestly. 

Like a chisel to wood, this documentary opens - what and how much is a question you'll have to answer after you watch this.