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Tue Aug 6, 2019, 09:01 AM Aug 2019

The Good Ol' Days "because I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he is" [View all]

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 haven’t seen the Netflix documentary 13th, you should. It’s about more than just mass incarceration: director Ava DuVernay (Selma) makes a powerful comparison between America’s 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

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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."
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