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== Plot ==
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== Controversy ==
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The film portrays the unresolved racial problem in the U.S., where the police and the courts cared very little about the death of a black man, and how difficult it was for a mother who tried to get her death son to justice at the time. Rather than helping the mother by getting the justice, she is still even disrespectfully labelled a black parent who couldn't control their child. "''The indifference shown to her at the grand jury, and her treatment by the police, as if she were the mother of a criminal rather than a victim, are repeated more than once''."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/26/strong-island-review-yance-ford-documentary-murder-brother</ref>
  
== Black Empowerment ==
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==Black Empowerment==
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Through this movie, Yance Ford, the director who also a brother from the victim hopes that audiences will understand that there is an unequality for black lives in this country that we need to resolve, that we also have to care about black people when we talk about the justice. ''"I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address,” he said. “In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives."''

Revision as of 15:12, 10 January 2021

Plot

Controversy

The film portrays the unresolved racial problem in the U.S., where the police and the courts cared very little about the death of a black man, and how difficult it was for a mother who tried to get her death son to justice at the time. Rather than helping the mother by getting the justice, she is still even disrespectfully labelled a black parent who couldn't control their child. "The indifference shown to her at the grand jury, and her treatment by the police, as if she were the mother of a criminal rather than a victim, are repeated more than once."[1]

Black Empowerment

Through this movie, Yance Ford, the director who also a brother from the victim hopes that audiences will understand that there is an unequality for black lives in this country that we need to resolve, that we also have to care about black people when we talk about the justice. "I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address,” he said. “In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives."