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Related: About this forumThe Good Ol' Days "because I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he is"
No one in this group needs further explanation nor the need to watch the following videos, save for the fact of whitewashing the past and our present for the sake of white innocence that renders the basic questioning of white privilege and systemic racism unworthy of reflection.
These are from October 2016
If you havent seen the Netflix documentary 13th, you should. Its about more than just mass incarceration: director Ava DuVernay (Selma) makes a powerful comparison between Americas prison system and slavery, while offering one of the most succinct and clear explanations of why Black Lives Matter and the current election matters. In one of the most powerful sequences, DuVernay puts the spotlight squarely on Donald Trump.
The Republican nominee for president has come under fire for one thing or another since he first began his campaign, but one of the larger issues is his hostile words, which often times incite his supporters to violence. To address the larger repercussions of this kind of political and cultural environment, 13th cuts between footage from these aggressive Trump rallies with archival footage from the Civil Rights era. http://collider.com/13th-clip-donald-trump-netflix/#poster
Ava DuVernay ('The 13th') at NYFF 54: Why Donald Trump needed to be included
As DuVernay said in her latest tweet today, "He told you who he was when he ran for President. This is no surprise now."
pangaia
(24,324 posts)even though i have probably seen all those old clips and lived, well,.. i was going to say lived 'through it,' but being white i didn't really live 'through it,' now did i...
but , i think you understand.
I am still learning....... at 75.
jeeze, i lived in Memphis from 1967-1970 and played a jazz gig downtown the night before Dr. King was killed... it was horrifying.....
I wish I knew the answer....
thank you again for the reminder.....
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)starts exactly where you are, remembering and connecting the dots, no matter how tenuous, between your life and mine
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)brer cat
(26,477 posts)although most of us knew exactly what he meant by the "good old days."