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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
Fails to dive deep into what he stood for and his vision.
As someone who has read the book this documentary is based on, it leaves out a great deal of information. For starters, he chose his name as Frederick Douglass when he was coming into his own. He struggled greatly with who his family, and specifically who his father was. Ultimately moving on from this unknown. The most amazing aspect was his forgiveness. He started his career with full of passion and fight in him to change America to the point of him stating this wasn't his country. He changed this thought as stating "This is our country" and to go even further to forgive his slave master.
As for his political association, he didn't believe in any of them before Lincoln. He needed to see proof the Republican Party could measure up to their promises made. He wholly despised the Democratic Party due to their stance on slavery. And after the war was ended, he was against reparations to previous slaves as he wanted them to find their own confidence that he himself found as a free, thinking man.
In the book it also states the relation to Andrew Johnson and how AJ gave way to the rise of the KKK thus beginning the unravel of all the work that was accomplished during Lincoln's presidency.
The Shop (2018)
Let down from a powerful voice
I grew up with Lebron in middle schooler, in the suburbs of Cleveland when he entered the league. I genuinely want to hear what he has to say about his views of society. He brings up great topics that need to be discussed yet I fear it pushes more hate into the young ears that watch it. After each episode I am confused because they, as we all do, want equality yet they aren't happy with league owners being majority white men. They don't discuss how many black entrepreneurs are in the US and own businesses. They still talk of fearing white man. That is in fact racist in itself. They are correct when there's a difference between inner city black people and black people from other countries. Black people from other countries don't live with this much hate. This is a new generation and to compare league owners to slave owners is drastic use of the first amendment.
Oh and to jimmy, you are disgustingly wrong. We still need a balanced conversation.