Stamped from the Beginning Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams brings Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s best-selling book Stamped From the Beginning to life, using vivid animations and leading female scholars to explore the history of anti-Black racist ideas.
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00:01 - When we think of the history of racism in this country,
00:06 we're really thinking of the history of power.
00:10 - There is a myth about the founding of this country.
00:17 People want to erase American history as it truly was.
00:21 - Racist ideas of African people
00:26 as beastly worthy of enslavement started circulating.
00:31 - And it worked.
00:32 - What happens when we tell these myths
00:41 about who black people are
00:43 and what their role in American society is?
00:46 It is crucial that we pay attention to it.
00:49 - These stories all about what's wrong with black people
00:54 has so many real social ramifications
00:57 because of the amount of people
00:58 who have bought into the myth.
01:00 - If you make us the threat, then you remove our humanity.
01:07 It justifies all kinds of horrific actions.
01:13 How are we intentionally questioning
01:19 what is being given to us and what we are ingesting?
01:23 - We who have suffered at this
01:25 are now saying to you, civilize yourself.
01:28 - The myth of black inferiority is destroyed.
01:34 - I love all of the things that blackness has given America,
01:40 whether or not America acknowledges it.
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