Everyone should watch this film
- I Am Not Your Negro review by nm
Extremely interesting film. It was an eye opener for me and makes one think - certainly many people should be ashamed of themselves. James Baldwin has a velvet voice that I could listen to for ever. It is a poignant documentary that teaches positive humanity. It has, as expected, a lovely music score and is a film I would recommend.
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Wake up call
- I Am Not Your Negro review by CP Customer
We found this a strong, sobering and chilling documentary about the violent, destructive and unaffirmative treatment of black people in the USA historically but also in the present. We were appreciative of having our eyes opened in this way by James Baldwin, such a skilled , intelligent articulate and composed man of integrity. Highly recommend it. It’s not comfortable viewing but offers a particular angle and insightful perspective.
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Good documentary
- I Am Not Your Negro review by LG
This was a very informative and well made documentary. I would recommend it if you want to learn about how life was in America in the 1930s to 1960s.
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A moving and shocking documentary of american racism
- I Am Not Your Negro review by Peter B
Well made documentary based on an unfinished book by James Baldwin who subsequently died of stomach cancer. Gives a good account of the similarities and different viewpoints of the leading black activists of the 1960's and 1970's, most of whom were murdered by white supremacists. Baldwin moved to Paris, as a black homosexual activist he would have been particularly vulnerable. My visit to the USA 2 years ago suggest they still have a long way to go but attitudes are slowly changing, I believe a recent poll showed 80% of americans are now supportive of inter-racial marriage. As a teenager some american friends tried to show me a Klu Klux Klan meeting. Each junction on the country roads had a man with a shotgun. By the time we found the meeting, there was only a burning cross remaining.
Shocking footage of the hate that some white people had for black americans. Bobby Kennedy appears weak-willed and short of compassion.
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A must watch documentary
- I Am Not Your Negro review by RM
The documentary portrays life in America up to 1987, when James Baldwin died. But as events in 2020 and 2021 show, not that much has improved for the black people whose ancestors were smuggled into the US to be enslaved, brutalised and murdered almost at will.
Racism is alive and well in the US, and lends support to all those people in other countries who think nothing of maltreating black people or other minorities. Such behaviour instead of creating a great civilisation is actually destroying it, whether the citizens are able to understand it or not. What a waste.
How can the world ever be a happy or wholesome place when one group takes pleasure in dehumanising another?
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