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I Am Not Your Negro 11/18/2020

I Am Not Your Negro   Raoul Peck's documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, illuminates the history of the black experience in America as seen through the eyes of the author James Baldwin. Drawing off Baldwin's work Remember This House, the documentary explores the connections between the way things were during his time and the way things are in American society today. Prevalent themes in the film include the contrasts and similarities of civil rights activists Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers, the power words can have, racial representation in the media, and the reality that social justice still remains to be seen in our country and around the world.  The Confluence of Four Lives   Baldwin states that he wants the three lives, Malcolm, Martin, and Medgar to "bang against and reveal each other, as in truth, they did." Baldwin felt that each man had used their journey as a means to instruct the people they loved so much, who in turn betrayed them. The same