Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017) by Metaflix I — 09 Mar 2017

I Am Not Your Negro is a powerful--and timely--documentary that makes clear the story of race relations in America is still being written.

Directed by Raoul Peck and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film presents vast amounts of archival footage from the civil rights era, juxtaposed against modern day representations of racial conflict, in which both the past and present are contextualized by the words of writer James Baldwin.

Given that the source material is nearly 40 years old, many of Baldwin's thoughts and opinions on the black experience in America ought to feel dated, yet the overall feeling leaving the theater isn't about how far we've come, but how much farther we still have to go.