"The Bigger Picture?"
James Baldwin's "I Am Not Your Nigger" documentary gives his perspective/story on the Negro in America. Throughout the video, we, the audience should be able to concur that,"The story of the Negro in America is the story of America" and it is NOT a pretty story at all! From the movie and television clips of the past that are intertwined with the commercial ads, broadway shows, freedom marches, police beatings, lynchings and other maltreatments of the African- American, Mr. Baldwin enlightens us on how this so called "Great Country" has never known what to do with the black population. White society's actions have shown us this. We saw it in the past, the present and unless, whites face this reality, we will still see it in the future. Baldwin provided the one solution to this anti-black acceptance with just a simple question: "White people have to find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first pl...