I Am Not Your Negro

The whole film was very dense with the perception of what Black America was at the time. We often like to think of our civilization as advanced or progressive, and although at times it is, I often see the same struggles just masked differently. Visually the film was well made with the archival footage of James Baldwin, MLK, Malcolm, and Medgar. I'm not sure if ironic is the correct word, but I did find irony in the film on how the same situations that happened in the civil rights area are so identical, that if the film were colorized it would be no different from our current time situations. While the film was moving and powering I couldn't help but feel hypocrisy towards Baldwin. For the same exact reason, Brian did. To preach about black struggle in America you should at least be in America and not in a gentle European country while your "friends" are hunted down. Although Baldwin does return, I could not feel the same emotional encouragement as Malcolm and Martin.