This documentary is still relevant! Afrocentric Films Collaborative
Have you heard of the term Gentrification?
Did you know in 1963 James Baldwin visited different Black communities in San Francisco, California to discover the real situation Black people faced in the liberal city? What he experienced, was raw, real, and extremely relevant.
From the 1963 documentary Take This Hammer
In this 1963 documentary Poet James Baldwin Predicts that America will have a BLACK PRESIDENT in 50 years or less. KQED's mobile film unit follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community. He is escorted by Youth For Service's Executive Director Orville Luster and intent on discovering: "The real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present." He declares: "There is no moral distance ... between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham. There is no moral distance ... between President Kennedy and Bull Connor because the same machine put them both in power. Someone's got to tell it like it is. And that's where it's at." Includes frank exchanges with local people on the street, meetings with community leaders and extended point-of-view sequences shot from a moving vehicle, featuring the Bayview Hunters Point and Western Addition neighborhoods. Baldwin reflects on the racial inequality that African-Americans are forced to confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man by expressing his conviction that: "There will be a Negro president of this country but it will not be the country that we are sitting in now."
Have you heard of the term Gentrification?
Did you know in 1963 James Baldwin visited different Black communities in San Francisco, California to discover the real situation Black people faced in the liberal city? What he experienced, was raw, real, and extremely relevant.
From the 1963 documentary Take This Hammer
In this 1963 documentary Poet James Baldwin Predicts that America will have a BLACK PRESIDENT in 50 years or less. KQED's mobile film unit follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community. He is escorted by Youth For Service's Executive Director Orville Luster and intent on discovering: "The real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present." He declares: "There is no moral distance ... between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham. There is no moral distance ... between President Kennedy and Bull Connor because the same machine put them both in power. Someone's got to tell it like it is. And that's where it's at." Includes frank exchanges with local people on the street, meetings with community leaders and extended point-of-view sequences shot from a moving vehicle, featuring the Bayview Hunters Point and Western Addition neighborhoods. Baldwin reflects on the racial inequality that African-Americans are forced to confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man by expressing his conviction that: "There will be a Negro president of this country but it will not be the country that we are sitting in now."