Essential viewing. Straight up history. Doesn't care if it upsets you.

America's racial issues are symptoms of a day one problem. The original sin that the country began with slavery and prospered because of it.

The issue I have - as someone who has spent a great deal of time in many parts of the US - is that the imbalance of the races means that there is still a lot of silent anger going on here.

Every white person in the US isn't racist. But some still are. Every black person isn't immune to being racist themselves - some are.

I don't see a solution to the problems as they were baked into every strand of thinking that created all the institutions that run the country.

Without demolishing all those institutions, how can this all be fixed? And creating a new institution in this day and age, would these high emotions be able to construct something fair and equitable...?

This documentary seems heavy-handed but how else can it be when laws have been written to deliberately oppress another race?

I'd have liked some acknowledgement that other races in the US have equal or worse treatment but that would upset the narrative.


8/10