"I have a problem with content Black people....I am discontented....Irresistibly discontented Black people are attractive to me." Thank you Baba Gerima. I understand what you mean.
The interviewer consistently asks these basic questions like he didn't do enough research going in. But then I wonder if its done on purpose, because Mr. Gerima really schools him (and us as well).
Nah, he just doesn’t know how to ask the right questions, and most certainly didn’t do his Homework. I’ve got 30 questions at the moment that could enlighten us all.
Yes. Because these are the questions of ordinary people, who cannot see the freed Black intellect. Those who cannot imagine outside white supremacist thought and practice. Please make that Chicago film about that rich Black man! We are still delusional about capital.
Haile Gerima's "Sankofa", moved me and touched my very soul! I was moved to tears, shaking with palpitations and actually feeling the invoked ancestors as if they popped right off the movie screen. Sankofa was not just a creative depiction. It was an EXPERIENCE!
How can you say tha LBJ should not be in the film when he's the one who signed the Civil Rights Act. He signed it despite of himself but he represents the US goverment reacting to the world wide protest which was the Civil Rights movement.
I have a lot of respect for Haile but for him to say that LBJ should not in the story of SELMA makes no sense. LBJ was part of the dynamic at play during the Civil rights struggle the same Robert F. Kennedy was part of the freedom ride movement. If you want to talk about the Civil rights movements you need to talk about the role the US Gov played for better or for worse. It would like making a film about US slavery without the slave masters.
Don't get fooled by the idea of Lincoln ended slavery . Slavery ended only because of black people's constant struggle for the freedom . That is the center of the whole concept .
