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Recommended Movies for New White Learners

Hey, White Friends:

While I know that gathering around the television, curled up in a blanket with a slice of avocado toast and a cup of coffee with an organic sweetener, to watch, “The Help” sounds like a great idea, I would like to suggest several different movies to watch first. It is not that, “The Help” is a bad movie, it’s rather good, but it is emblematic of the problem. Too often movies dealing with race are centered around a ‘white-hero figure’ (Emma Stone) and a black person unable to help themselves (Viola Davis) without a ‘white hero’. It creates this narrative, in some newly learned minds, that this is the path towards racial justice. So I am providing a list of movies to watch instead, that promote a much more accurate picture of the struggle for freedom, to help you in your journey. EVERYONE please feel free to share and add (preferably people who have been doing this work) below:

Netflix
When They See Us
13th
Dear White People

Amazon Prime
Just Mercy
I Am Not Your Negro
Selma
Marshall

Hulu
Underground
If Beale Street Could Talk

ESPN
The O.J. Simpson Documentary

HBO
Watchmen
Insecure

ABC
Black-Ish
Grown-Ish
Mixed-Ish

General
Do The Right Thing
Fruitvale Station
Dead Presidents
12 Years a Slave
GLORY (#1)
Get Out
Birth of a Nation (the new one not the racist one)
Medal of Honor
Miracle of St. Anna
Malcolm X
BlacKkKlansmen

Sleeper
A Huey P. Newton Story (Solo Act. A+.)

*Notice: Green Book is NOT on this list*

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