Links: John Boyega's activism, Criterion Channel says "Black Lives Matter," The Eisner Awards and more...
Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 9:00AM
We're always behind with our news roundups. Forgive. It's such a difficult time out there. We know we aren't the only people struggling to concentrate...
• THR A personal history of queer cinema by critic David Rooney with Dirk Bogarde anecdotes
• Vulture the 100 best movies on HBO Max
• The Guardian for our UK readers, Guy Lodge points out the awesome movies from RKO pictures that you can stream online there now
After the jump John Boyega's activism, Criterion Channel on Black Lives Matter, the Oscars of comic books', theaters opening in time for Tenet and more...
• Screen Daily David Oyelowo talks about Selma's Oscar trouble, post-lockdown projects, and Black Lives Matters
• Film School Rejects on Labyrinth 2 and why Scott Derrickson might be the perfect director for it
• /Film National Society of Theater Owners really is expecting most movie theaters to be open starting in July in time for Tenet
• /Film the Annecy Film Festival, an important festival for animated films, is moving forward this year (this month) but it's going entirely online
• Coming Soon the director of Godzilla vs Kong calls its PG-13 rating "an understatement"
• Criterion Channel is setting up a monthly employee-guided donation to institutions fighting racism and they’re also now offering free streams of important films about black lives and from black artists. You can read their full statement on Twitter but here’s the free streaming part…
We are also using our streaming platform, the Criterion Channel, to highlight films that focus on Black Lives, including works by early pioneers of African American Cinema such as Oscar Micheaux; classics by Maya Angelou, Julie Dash, William Greaves, Kathleen Collins, Cheryl Dunye, and Charles Burnett; contemporary work by Khalik Allah and Leilah Weinraub; and documentary portraits of black experience by white filmmakers Les Blank and Shirley Clarke. We’ve taken down the paywall on as many of these titles as we can, so even if you aren’t a subscriber you can watch them for free.
So for those of you dragging your feet about a subscription (they really have so much great stuff) here’s an opportunity to sample for free.
Off Cinema
• NYT Stacey Abrams piece about voting - a sacred act and only the beginning of the work. Really beautifully stated.
• Screen Daily David Oyelowo, Noel Clarke, and Andrea Riseborough and more talk about the George Floyd murder protests, post-lockdown Hollywood projects, racism in the film industry (including Selma's Oscar trouble) and more.
Oh and cheers to John Boyega for being fearless with his activism. In case you missed his speech a couple of days ago. Especially beautiful in this speech is his praise of black women. The Evening Standard shared it on YouTube:
Thankfully he's been receiving praise and future job offers from Hollywood directors so he probably needn't have worried that this would end his career. In that Screen Daily talk linked above, Noel Clarke speaks directly to Boyega's fears.
“Ten years ago, it probably would have [damaged his career],” said Clarke. “I think the years and years of breaking boundaries have got to a point where John Boyega is going to be absolutely fine. But that’s not the point; the point is he’s still fearful. That is what we’ve been going through – for as long as this industry’s been around, but in life generally for hundreds and hundreds of years – the fear of saying anything because then you will be without, and you will be done. This time hopefully there is a systemic, institutional change that will come from this.”
Finally...
THR has a complete list of this year's Eisner Nominees for the best in comic books. The Eisner Awards are usually held at Comic Con but that's not happening this year. Still we have the nominee list. The Eisners are considered the 'Oscars of comics' but sadly they're very spotty, historically, unlike the Oscars. They started in the 1980s but they've missed years here and there and info is hard to find since there's no central website. They're under the umbrella of Comic Con but the Comic Con site doesn't keep good archives for them (also spotty in nomination details and broken links and the rest). Like The Grammys the Esiners probably have too many categories with vague rules.
Here are three sample categories if you're interested, two shortlists of which you can click to read online right now.
Best Continuing Series
- Bitter Root, by David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)
- Criminal, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
- Crowded, by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt (Image)
- Daredevil, by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto (Marvel)
- The Dreaming, by Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely et al. (DC)
- Immortal Hulk, by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and Ruy José et al. (Marvel)
The only repeat nominee from last year (and this wasn't immediately easy information to find since the 'official site' doesn't have last year's nominees and even Wikipedia didn't have the information!) was Immortal Hulk, though Bitter Root and Crowded were both in the "best new comic" category last year so in their sophomore outings they scored the top nomination. Last year's winner in this category was a comic called "Giant Days" from BoomBox
Best Webcomic
- Cabramatta, by Matt Huynh
- Chuckwagon at the End of the World, by Erik Lundy
- The Eyes, by Javi de Castro
- Fried Rice Comic, by Erica Eng
- reMIND, by Jason Brubaker
- Third Shift Society, by Meredith Moriarty
This year's Best Webcomic nominees have two memoir comics ("Cabramatta" and "Fried Rice"). "The Eyes" series has really fun visuals (some of the images flicker and vanish). "Chuckwagon" has clever "panel" structuring within the online format but it was too giddily violent for me. The most traditional read is "Third Shift Society" since it's a girl with super powers fighting supernatural beasts. "reMIND" is the only one that we haven't looked at yet since it requires a specific app to download, but the app is free so we'll sample it.
Best Short Story
- “Hot Comb,” by Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb
- “How to Draw a Horse,” by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker
- “The Menopause,” by Mira Jacob, The Believer
- "Who Gets Called an ‘Unfit’ Mother?” by Miriam Libicki, The Nib
- "You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You,” by Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal
You can read all but one of those online for free (see links). We're very fond of "How to Draw a Horse" which is both funny and insightful and relatable with queer crushes. I suspect The Oatmeal could take this -- that piece was shared a lot and it's both fun and educational and totally of the moment when it comes to our angry divided world and partisan politics.
Reader Comments (38)
Oyelowo is basically reading our minds with the Baftas.
Voting doesn't help at all. Even if you're forced to choose between a giant douche and a shit sandwich. Plus, we all know your votes can get bought like the last election. Why does anyone think this year will be any different? Plus, is Joe Biden really the right choice? We could do so much better but no, we have to maintain the concept of the 2 party system.
thevoid99 the only way to get any real change is to vote- you can have all the marching but it's not going to change anything - pick the candidate that's closer to your value and voter for him or her.
Anyone who believes that there's no difference between Biden and Trump obviously has a void between their ears and knows nothing about the judiciary branch.
Can we discuss the Lea Michele drama? I'm so sorry for her because I have always liked her, but we all know that all is true, right?
I am sick of the "both sides are bad" argument. This is straight out of the GOP and Russia's handbook. Are you really comfortable with Trump deciding RBG's replacement? What about Stephen Breyer's (he's 81, btw)? What about Mitch McConnell's reign of appointing far-right appointees to the federal court? What about not joining the Paris Climate Agreement? What about the tax cuts for the 1%? What about the tariffs? What about our laughingstock on the world stage? And, perhaps most relevantly, what about race relations and police brutality? You are a fool if you think both sides are equally bad. Feeling your vote doesn't matter is what got Trump elected in the first place. Grow up.
BITCH SO DO YOU PREFER TO HAVE TRUMP FOR ONE MORE TERM RATHER THAN PICKING ANYONE ELSE? GTFO
White folks pick the Help to learn racism on Netflix is proving a lot of things about this type of movie.
I am kind of surprised to not see Hickman's X-Men nominated. He is shaking the whole Marvel status quo, and probably giving the excuse to Kevin Feige in how to introduce the X-Men and the Fantastic Four into the MCU, all at once and in a credible way.
Politically speaking, as someone who ACTUALLY have studied the issue at the university and with PROFESSIONAL experience in the diplomatic enviroment (at a country at war, key in resources), and who lives OUTSIDE the American fishtank (yes, that's what the USA parallels too, most people are unable to see they live in a fishtank, unaware of how the world outside works, and even worse, how their own country really works). Let's be honest - and if you do not like the truth, that's fine, but do not blame the messenger.
Obama, the Clintons and Biden are the very main reason why Trump got elected and will probably be re-elected. The Democratic party fools less and less people, and for decades have required of showmen (Bill Clinton and his sax, Obama and his sense of humor) with huge marketing campaigns to sell themselves as "left" (their political stand point, anywhere else in the world is in the conservative side, the "right"). Biden offers more of the same but as Hillary, WITHOUT the showmanship that allowed Bill and Barack to win. Biden's campaigning is basically "me or Trump". No actual proposals. Universal healthcare and education? No. Those were Sanders, and notice how the whole democratic party turned against him, pannicking to lose the support of the Wall Street lobbies.
Because more and more people has noticed that the democratic party is basically the same shit at core than the republicans. The main difference is that now, Trump is there, and Trump does not give a damn about the lobbies, he is basically a millionaire ruling the country in his own interest and gain, and the one of their elite friends. He plays dumb but he is waaaay smarter than their oponents, who do not dare to question the system at all. Trump made people forget that the president who saw the biggest increase in racial police brutality, the one that deported the most people and the one that threw more bombs abroad in American history... was Barack Obama. Yes, like that. It was ridiculous, embarrassing and heartbreaking to see so many american friends champion Michelle Obama, as the next President (her qualifications, having been the First Lady, her glamour and how beautiful she is), like if ruling the country was a matter of looking good, rather than focusing on her (quite good, let's say that) professional qualifications (she could be a good President, objectively, but those are not the motivations why she was championed).
Because American boys and girls do not go abroad to "free countries and enslaved populations", they go to warrant the control of resources that are STOLEN from the people of those countries, the examples are endless, and it really does not matter whose party is in the Oval Office, the mechanics are the same, always, and not only oil, let's look no other example than Chile 1973, when Allende nationalized cupper mining and the USA financed the coup and genocide comitted by Augusto Pinochet, who of course was a "good friend of America". But you can look anywhere, even check out how my country, Spain, had a dictator that killed over 100,000 people and was supported by the USA in exchange of military bases to control the Mediterranean and northern Africa.
People should really open their eyes... 4 years ago, there was a 3 way race (Trump, Hillary and Jill Stein for the green party). The Green Party had a realistic objective of earning 5% of the votes, which would have warranted that it would be from now on, a 3 way race for the Presidency and the government, and what did the Democratic party and Hillary did? Double the efforts against Stein with fake news about her being anti-vaccination, and doubling the attacks on the greens. The result, we all know it. Trump president and the status quo between choosing between a dictator like character or a clear puppet of the stock markets, no freedom, actual equality in sight. Well done, America, over 200 hundred years and millions of victims and you NEVER learn.
@ jesus alonso mr, i bow to you
From the sounds of it Lea Michele was awful to most people regardless of race fans and staff included.
Everything Aaron said. Also: waiting for the perfect candidate to come along will never ever happen because that is the world we live in, unfortunately. Anyone who is comfortable doing nothing to try to stop Trump from being reelected - that's your choice. But if he wins and we complete our slide into a literal fascist state you can rest on your very principled stand of doing absolutely nothing.
Peggy Sue: Yeah, anyone who watched Glee might kind of know it's true. It's why Lea Michele hasn't really been able to find work outside of the Ryan Murphy stable. Gee, no one wants to work with an unstable theatre brat? I wonder why.
It's important to remember that, as bad as Lea Michele's on-set behavior was, Ryan Murphy tolerated it. He should be held to account, too (but he won't).
Mr Jesus ( I have a university of diplomacy degree) Alonso. Yes the the US is still a two party system and while they are similar in some ways they are different in others- people need to vote period - make all the excuses to you want but if you don't get off your lazy ass and vote then don't whine or complain about the results
The love story of Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Forwood is fascinating. After being married to Glynis Johns - the suffragist mother in Mary Poppins -, with whom he had a son (also actor Gareth Forwood), he joined Dirk for life. Notable that they never made any fiction about it or even a documentary.
Those who call Trump a dictator have never lived in a country with this kind of political regime. They don't know what this word means.
Jaragon that is my point, too. But my point is also, DO NOT VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS ANYMORE. Look up and agree on third and fourth options, it is the ONLY way out of this vicious circle that just breeds monsters like Trump, the Bush family or Reagan.
Jesus: Mr Putin called. Your check is in the mail.
@Jaragon-You actually believe in that bullshit? Didn't you learn anything from 4 years ago?
@rama-OK, so you want me to vote for someone who also bullshits people and sexually harassed someone?
And yes, Lea Michele is a bitch. Anyone remembered what she did to Hailee Steinfeld when Steinfeld wanted to meet her and Michele brushed her off as if she was a bug? I never liked her and I never liked that fucking show. Plus, I do think Ryan Murphy is responsible for encouraging this kind of shit as I hope he too gets... DELETED!!!!
Ken s. You just proved how binary, American mind is. There is way more in the world, and you barely grasp basic concepts. Putin is a fascist, as Trump, but also China. But Biden and the Democrats represent another kind of fascism, the corporate one You guys just decide which kind of fascism you are going to enjoy in the next 4 years. I wouldn't bother, if the rest of the world wouldn't pay the consequences of American inability to escape the vicious circle. Because the American people is the only one that can break it, we can't from abroad
Jesus: Yeah. I'm reminded of something AOC said: In any other country, she and Biden would be in separate parties. In Canada (mine), she'd almost certainly be NDP. Three parties (minimum) being able to attain power anywhere in a country (even if just on a state/province level) is the ONLY way to not GUARANTEE a slide into actual fascism. Can it still happen in countries with more than two? Sure. Looking at you, Brazil. But it WILL happen if there isn't more than two who can attain power.
Yes bitch. US only deserves evil, but choose the lesser evil. You people always whine about Trump but do nothing to prevent him from being reelected. vote!
Trump = stage 4 cancer
Biden = stage 2 cancer
I don't use the term cancer lightly -- it is very much intentional. Both are horrible, but the odds of surviving are better with one than the other. We will still be sick no matter what and it will be awful, but I'll take those odds with the latter and vote for the option where there is a glimmer of hope, as opposed to the apocalyptic scenarios with the current president.
A third party choice, while great in an ideal world where it is a viable and realistic option, is simply not a factor in this current model: it is snake oil sold and bought by the desperate. Yell and rail about the simple binary options, but it's of little consequence this year and in this election.
Vovalgia, here in Spain we are also suffering the slide into pure fascism. The left simply does not exist anymore, even if PSOE and Unidas Podemos pretend to be. It is discouraging as the only parties from actual left proposals that have enough votes to get into the parlament, are the basque EH-Bildu (with a past of supporting the terrorist band ETA) and the CUP (catalonian anti-capitalist nationalists)... it is heartbreaking to hear them in the Congress being the ones with more accurate, acceptable speeches, along with Unidas Podemos, who would be in the center and have one of the four vice-presidencies of the government. But every single party that proclaims they are on the political right is mimicking the speech of Vox, the extreme right party, full of nostalgics of the dictatorship.
Jesus — as someone outside of our fishbowl I would say you should sit this conversation out. You clearly don’t get how American politics works or what its like to live here during Democratic vs Republican administration (there is a noticeable difference ) and ur spreading more of the propaganda that helps ppl like Trump get elected. When ppl with good hearts and progressive minds fall for the “both sides” propaganda / bullshit they end up discouraged and either throw their votes away (by voting for ridiculous pawns like Jill Stein) or they don’t vote at all — both of which make it easier for the hard right to win and destroy our country .
Rafaello — I don’t think most people think Trump is an actual dictator. But the point is that all signs point to him WANTING to be one. We’re trying to prevent autocracy before we actually get there while the GOP and anyone who spreads “both sides-ism” reductive propaganda Or anyone who votes third party or anyone who doesn’t vote will further enable this slide into fascism.
The most surprisimg aspect of this discussion is someone defending Jill Scott. She may have right heart and some propositions are key, but come on, she was a full useless and incompetent third name. Even as another international poster, I can see that kind of weak contender.
Sorry, Jill Stern. She's so meningful as zero to the left I ever confused her to a talented singer and actress
Thank you, Nathaniel! It’s always crushingly obvious which people on this board don’t have to worry about the immediate effects of a fascist regime developing (cishet or straight-passing *white* males - yes, this includes you, Jesus...), because they can AFFORD not to vote, throw their vote away on someone with a snowball’s chance in hell of winning or criticize another country’s political climate with the confidence of someone who’s in the midst of it. I detest people like this nearly as much as the full-blown racists - if not more, because at least the racists have the balls to openly declare how little they give a sh*t about the minorities in very real danger of being annihilated.
I cosign pretty much everything that Jesus has said and think that it's unfortunate that his views are getting painted as pro-Russia, anti-Democratic propaganda and the valid points he is making are getting summarily dismissed out of hand.
The logic that if someone doesn't vote, it is automatically a vote for Trump is fundamentally unsound. Couldn't a Trump-backer, by that same "logic," argue that if someone sits the election out, it is automatically a vote for Biden?
Setting that aside, however, I don't for a second disagree that another four years of Trump would be an unmitigated disaster for this country, and if, strategically speaking, your foremost goal is to kick Trump out of office, then by all means, voting for Biden is your one, and only, realistic way of accomplishing that. I think the point that Jesus is making (not to put words in his mouth of course) is that we, as a country, should be aspiring to more and should recognize that the choice we're currently presented, between two white, geriatric, accused rapists for president, is an undeniable sign that the myth of America democracy is just that: a myth that corporations and oligarchs have sold us for the perpetuation of this capitalist hellscape.
I don't think it's wrong to aspire to universal healthcare. I don't think it's wrong to aspire to community-based safety initiatives in lieu of heavily militarized policing. I don't think it's wrong to aspire to free public tertiary education. I don't think it's wrong to aspire to prison abolishment. i don't think it's wrong to aspire to massive, society-wide wealth redistribution. And I don't think it's wrong to acknowledge the undeniable fact that Joe Biden will not work to bring any of these things about, as evidence by his very own stated positions. If you want to call that pro-Russia, pro-Trump, anti-Democratic garbage, it is completely within your right to do so. But as voting for Joe Biden will not help accomplish any of my stated goals, I will simply not be doing it.
Andrew -- Yes, a Trump backer could logically argue that same thing. Though I'd be surprised if they did because logic isn't their strong suit. FACT: America has a two-party political system. It sucks but that's what we have. We cannot improve reality by pretending it does not exist. First we must accept reality. Then we figure out how to deal with it / change it.
For the record I agree wtih most your bulletpoints and I 1000% agree that we should be aspiring towards the better world they would bring. But no one in any scenario can get to any goal they might have by running in its exact opposite direction. (i.e. not voting or voting for Trump in this case)
Progress literally cannot happen if we stop at every incremental step towards a goal (ANY goal) and determine that that step isn't worth taking because it doesn't get us all the way to the end result.
I wish you could see that this is so defeatist and that it reeks of privilege. You're willing to doom the most vulnerable people in the US (who the GOP and Trump are already at war with) to an even greater hellscape just because you can't have your awesome sounding utopia?
A heartbreaking story. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2033369/amp/Her-family-hired-maid-12-years-stole-life-Disney-movie.html
Nathanial: I appreciate your response, and I want you to know first and foremost that I have read your blog for years and have loved the vast majority of content that you post. I would normally elect to talk about movies over politics but feel that the moment demands more conversation around the latter.
I've heard the privilege argument a number of times related to non-voting or at least not voting for either of the candidates at the top of the ticket:
1) I think the ability and right to make an informed decision for oneself vis-a-vis whom or whom not to vote for should be respected by all corners of the electorate, especially by those who hold up voting as the foremost responsibility of American citizens; to suggest that certain voters with whom you may not agree are flagrantly exhibiting their privilege by not voting for the candidate that you have deemed best is anathema to the idea of a pluralist democracy
2) The vein of racism and sexism and homophobia that is now surfacing in its most public form yet under the "leadership" of Trump has run underneath this country since its very founding; to suggest that the foremost way to combat these societal ills is to vote for the one candidate who does not openly espouse his own racist and sexist and homophobic views (but who most assuredly holds them and has benefited his entire career from wanton favor from institutions steeped in racism and sexism and homophobia) is misguided; to also suggest that life was peachy for our black and brown comrades under past Democratic administration is ahistorical; to take just the two most recent Democratic occupants of the White House as an example; the modern police state saw a dramatic engorgement under Clinton, who advocated for the "three strikes and you're out" policy and warned of "superpredators" running amok in America's cities; Obama's policies directly lead to millions of deportations of Mexican immigrants, and, instead of advocating bailing out poverty-striken citizens during the 2008 financial crisis, he elected to bail out those very institutions that prayed on them in the first place; I refuse to continue perpetuating the myth that ANY recent Democratic president gave a damn about our comrades of color and did literally ANYTHING to fundamentally improve their lives; in fact, we saw a marked decrease in black voters during the 2016 election; I'm sure you would not argue that it was their "privilege" that was keeping them from the polls?; they probably finally just realized that American politics is a sideshow and that community action and engagement is the only method through which to affect any real change
Defeatist, I think, is voting for the only one, objectively terrible candidate offerred up on a platter to us by a backwards thinking political party wrapped in nothing more than aesthetic trappings of milquetoast respectability.
Again: love your blog!
@rama-OK, vote for your giant douche and if the country doesn't get better. That's on you. I voted twice in my lifetime. 2000 and 2016. A fucking waste of time. Especially for the fact that you don't get any valid choices. You're forced to choose between 2 ideals that are extremely flawed and doesn't say anything to you. I make the decision to not vote because I no longer believe in democracy and I am sick of both Republicans and Democrats. They're cunts and I hope someone destroys them both. I wish we had Bernie Sanders running but the problem is that Americans are too scared of him.
Democrats are the worst. The thing they're so much better than Republicans and they don't know anything about international politics. They labeled Hillary as progressive when she was the twin sister of Thatcher.
Nathaniel, oh boy... here is my reply... I copy/paste your condescending contribution to the discussion, so I can correctly reply to it.
"Jesus — as someone outside of our fishbowl I would say you should sit this conversation out. You clearly don’t get how American politics works or what its like to live here during Democratic vs Republican administration (there is a noticeable difference ) and ur spreading more of the propaganda that helps ppl like Trump get elected. When ppl with good hearts and progressive minds fall for the “both sides” propaganda / bullshit they end up discouraged and either throw their votes away (by voting for ridiculous pawns like Jill Stein) or they don’t vote at all — both of which make it easier for the hard right to win and destroy our country ."
YOU have been knowing me for 2 decades and, while the average reader of your site have no idea of my background, you certainly know, from our interactions in both Facebook and Oscarwatch/Awardsdaily for nearly 20 years. You KNOW that I am historian, geographer, expert in development, risked my life to get international experience in a diplomatic level in places where life are at stake, yet still you tell me to sit out of the conversation because... I am not american, and thus, I can't get american politics. Wow, that's surely condescending and I take it as an insult, coming from you.
But it is even worse, because YOU are film critic, therefore trained to analyze and used to deconstruct the audiovisutal, marketing systems that manipulate people both massively and individually (I am also trained in that, after years of studying arts and cinema at the university), and you run a site that have followed Armando Iannucci's "Veep" which has perfectly disected the American political system and why it is rotten to the core. Iannucci never hid that the blueprint for Selina Meyer is Hillary Clinton and her family. There is always a point in which her political party can never be really guessed, because her proposal and changes of minds can be identified with both sides continuosly, and that is the whole point of the series, to unmask - and Washington DC insiders had praised the series for that, as a "faithful portrait" - how the vote of the American population is actually pointless... lobbies are going to rule the country regardless who wins. This time, the difference is that you have a full blown fascist at the house, and corporate fascists are trying to dethrone it, but NOT to implement a real democracy in the USA, but to continue with the sick system that has costed millions of lives inside and outside the USA. It's 2020 and you still have to please ask to the police to NOT kill people because the color of the skin. It's 2020 and you get covid and you are ruined for life because of the hospital bills. It's 2020 and you still think you have freed Afghanistan, Lybia or Iraq, rather than drowned them into endless wars, while you steal their resources, and the deaths are by the hundred thousands.
It's time you people realize that the only ones responsible for this, are those who keep the system by voting democrats and republicans. While millions still promote this bipartisan system, without any other voice than the stock markets, you - we - are doomed, and time is running out, because talking as an historian... whenever an empire falls and is substituted by another, the usual case is that a huge war between them happens, and China is knocking at the door, a dictatorial, big brother nightmare that the USA has fed for decades, relocating there the tech industry of the USA and his puppet states of Japan and South Korea.
Seriously, did you forget who I am and my background of decades of keeping to date with geostrategy?
I am out of this conversation, this is a film site. But certainly I couldn't remain silent when I am told to not talk about the politics that affect my life, as a citizen of this planet. I can't talk, but your laws allow you legally to kidnap, torture and assasinate me just pointing me out as a terrorist.
And you are, as a nation, OK with that. You just need someone on a tv set telling you, I am a "danger to democracy".
Peace out.
With the Baftas, Oyelowo is essentially reading our minds. Black Lives Matter was inspired by a single incident and spread swiftly to encompass all instances of prejudice against minorities. It is the voice of the many millions of people today who wish to expose the injustices that exist in their nations. See https://rafalreyzer.com/reasons-why-blm-movement-is-important/ to learn the Top 5 Reasons The BLM Movement Matters. Supporting it means providing a voice to individuals who are still subjected to discrimination today. This is unquestionably one of the most significant racial movements in history.