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Aug 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
118 Films Directed by Black Folks in Response to the Criterion Collection

(This is a living list. Feel free to debate inclusions in the replies. That's how it was born.) boxd.it/7K1ai
Thanks for the inspiration @kylebuchanan & @uugwuu. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Lastly, @letterboxd is amazing. Everyone who likes movies and television should try it.
This took 13 hours less a full work day and live tweeting the final night of the #DNC2020.

Tell me again it's hard to find films by Black directors worthy of inclusion.
@criterionchannl @CriterionDaily

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The thing about the get along with everyone advice is that it’s easily given and followed from a position of power, because “getting along” rarely means giving up anything that you’re already denying to the folks you’re getting along with.
Folks aren’t looking for a fight.

They’re looking for things to which they have a right: fair pay, bodily autonomy, to live free from fear of mortal harm.

You don’t have a right to expect them to get along with you while you deny or seek to deny them those things.
Last thing I’ll add, this is an actually an issue I’ve long struggled with. I’ve had to unlearn the instinct.
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