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Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams brings Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s best-selling book Stamped From the Beginning to life, using vivid animations and leading female scholars to explore the history of anti-Black racist ideas.

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00:00 When we think of the history of racism in this country, we're really thinking of the

00:09 history of power.

00:13 There is a myth about the founding of this country.

00:17 People want to erase American history as it truly was.

00:25 Past ideas of African people as beastly, worthy of enslavement started circulating.

00:31 And it worked.

00:38 What happens when we tell these myths about who black people are and what their role in

00:44 American society is, it is crucial that we pay attention to it.

00:49 These stories all about what's wrong with black people has so many real social ramifications

00:57 because of the amount of people who have bought into the myth.

01:04 If you make us the threat, then you remove our humanity.

01:10 It justifies all kinds of horrific actions.

01:17 How are we intentionally questioning what is being given to us and what we are ingesting?

01:23 We who have suffered at this are now saying to you, civilize yourself.

01:28 The myth of black inferiority is destroyed.

01:35 I love all of the things that blackness has given America, whether or not America acknowledges

01:41 it.

01:42 I love it.

01:44 I love it.

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01:48 I love it.

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01:55 I love it.

01:57 I love it.

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