Stamped from the Beginning Trailer

Stamped from the Beginning Trailer - official movie trailer HD

Transcript

00:00 (upbeat music)

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.

01:42 (dramatic music)

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01:57 (dramatic music)

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