I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Directors

Raoul Peck

Cast

Audrey Hepburn, Barack Obama, Billy Dee Williams, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Doris Day, Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, George W. Bush, Harry Belafonte, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, Michelle Obama, Ray Charles, Richard Widmark, Robert F. Kennedy, Rod Steiger, Samuel L. Jackson, Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis

The story

The film opens with a 1968 interview on The Dick Cavett Show. Cavett notes that Baldwin is often asked a stubborn question: "Why aren't the Negroes optimistic?" He says that many people believe the situation to be improving considerably, with Black people now holding positions of influence across society: as mayors, professional athletes, politicians and TV actors. Cavett asks Baldwin, "Is it at once getting much better and still hopeless?" In response, Baldwin says, "I don't think there's much hope for it, as long as people are using this peculiar language.

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