How To Whitewash Black History
What better way to celebrate Black History Month than to rewrite our history on screen! Hollywood produced Biopics made about civil rights figures tread a very line: a line between creating a beautiful work of art that celebrates their life’s work on one end - and misrepresenting it on the other. Where is that line drawn?
00:00 - 06:33 Intro
06:40 - 09:42 Clause
09:46 - 20:33 Bout’ Time Our Stories Were On the Big Screen.
21:20 - 37:10 The Wheel is Spinning, But the Hamster is Dead.
37:13 - 44:45 You Will Not Be Able to Plug In, Turn On and Cop-Out.
An animated opinion.