I Am Not Your Negro

The novelist, playwright and essayist James Baldwin, is a man who has been dead for nearly 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to find a movie that speaks to the present moment with greater clarity and force, insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of historyBaldwin could not have known about Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, about the presidency of Barack Obama and the recrudescence of white nationalism in its wake, but in a sense he explained it all in advance. He understood the deep, contradictory patterns of our history, and articulated, with a passion and clarity that few others have matched, the psychological dimensions of racial conflict: the suppression of black humanity under slavery and Jim Crow and the insistence on it in African-American politics . A O ScottThey played their Black card with Obama. Now watch as the issues important to Blacks Americans moves out of view and/or becomes more conservative, meaning more progressive agendas. All the different arguments for and against us are coming. Stay tuned.Professor Early Bennett Esq