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| Baldwin, grandíssimo! |
EU NÃO SOU SEU NEGRO (I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, USA,
2016) - 1.
In 1979,
James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project,
"Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal
account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar
Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in
1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker
Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. There is a
marvelous moment in the film when a philosophy professor challenges Baldwin on
the Dick Cavett Show for his attitudes and holds Baldwin (and by extension
black people) responsible for the continuing racial divide. His message seems
to be "you're the one making an issue out of this, not me." Baldwin's
takedown of him in eloquent words that I will not even begin to try to
replicate captures the essence of the entire film and the black struggle for
equality.
