Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch the first part of the PBS series, Race: The Power of An Illusion, with a group of folks from our church. It’s an incredible video series that I truly believe every person should be required to watch at some point in their lives.
I can’t seem to find any clips from the first section that I saw yesterday, but I’m going to include just one from the whole documentary to give you a taste of the information you’ll hear about.
You can probably find the series at your local library, just take a look.
“White by Law”
this clip summarizes two contradicting cases regarding the law of naturalization and race,
Takao Ozawa v. United States
There was a racial requirement for citizenship up until 1954! That’s less than a generation!
This blows my mind, and puts being anti-racism, while in the U.S. in a whole different light for me.
Richard,
have you seen this documentary? You should really check it out.
We are watching it as part of a thing through Sanctuary Covenant Church, do you want me to let you know when the next showing and discussion is?
Yeah, definitely let me know when it is and I’ll try to make it.
I am halfway through Affluenza, I just listened to a crazy “This American Life” today, and now this. I’m a mess right now. Our country needs a giant brain enema.
Its so sad to see the meanness of people. I can’t understand being so filled with hate that I’d put a big 20×5 sign on my house saying “this is a white neighborhood.” Even more sad, I’m sure most people like that were “good christian” folk, who thought they were doing right…
Do you think the whole series in on Youtube?
I couldn’t find the whole thing online anywhere. I believe there are three parts and the third part is on youtube, but the first two are not.
I’m sure you can find it at your local library.
is it 3 parts?
Yeah, three parts:
The Difference Between Us
The Story We Tell
The House We Live In
Here is the link to The House We Live In on youtube (it’s split into five sections, all posted by the same person)