Black Life: Untold Stories | show | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Interviews to narrate the long history of anti-black racism in Canada, including police brutality and the rise of hip-ho | dHNfR1N3alFBMDZyeTQ

Transcript

00:00 (dramatic music)

00:03 - The story of this country is incredibly hidden.

00:06 - Canadians of generations have been miseducated.

00:10 - We've just been lied to and tricked.

00:13 - There's this palpable sense of alienation

00:18 where you were expected to know your place.

00:20 - You were not part of the white man's country.

00:25 - And they began to challenge that.

00:29 - Blacks are getting increasingly fed up

00:31 with the police force they consider racist.

00:34 - We were filled by history.

00:36 We were all dispossessed.

00:38 But we don't talk about that.

00:40 - We have so many amazing black histories in Canada.

00:48 - Whether it's Montreal, Halifax, or Vancouver,

00:54 we were never meant to prosper here.

00:56 Look where we are under that legacy.

00:59 - Canada wasn't this promised land.

01:01 It was another step in a journey for freedom.

01:04 - We can't sit around and say that,

01:07 "Oh, it's not gonna change."

01:08 No, we have to do everything in our power to do that.

01:11 - There has to be a certain degree

01:12 of audacity and imagination.

01:15 - We are here.

01:16 We have been here.

01:18 - These stories are us.

01:20 - These are all means of black people

01:23 organizing their lives against erasure.

01:27 (crowd chanting)

01:30 - But we're up for the fight

01:31 because it's beautiful being black in Canada.

01:34 (upbeat music)

01:36 (upbeat music)

01:39 (audience laughing)