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I Am Not Your Negro Analysis

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I Am Not Your Negro
Introduction
The black people have been the victim of white men violence for over 400 years, generations of them have been treated brutally but they have been fighting together for their civil rights. The award-winning documentary entitled I Am Not Your Negro presented a dark history of black-white conflict and intense relationship between the two. White supremacy is one of the reasons causing the so called the Negro Problem. The Negritude is to keep the black population united and it showed the progress of the development of black population. However, when there is white supremacy, when they still classify people into different ethnic groups, there will still be divisions. History is not the past, it is the present, it is …show more content…

For hundreds of years, people have been denying the facts, the suffering and the reality of the existence of the immoral treatments. The riots in the 60s, 90s and even in the beginning of 21 Century have pushed black-white relationship further away from each other, although the roles of the black in the society are getting much better, there are still unpleasant incidents every now again. In 2016, when the documentary entitled I Am Not Your Negro directed by Raoul Pack was released and won awards, it has brought up more discussions about the black-white relations and racism discussions worldwide (Young, 2016). Recent years, the racism conflicts between the black and the white seem to be intensified, Black Life Matters have been mentioned everywhere which has brought up this discussion of negritude alongside with racism and white supremacy. This paper will discuss the documentary and highlight some of the clips of the film, include a short discussion of white supremacy reflected in the

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