But the most resounding applause came when the “solutions” graphic appeared on screen, with a young smiling, curly-topped Black woman dancing in the breeze with an American flag. There were several insights that evoked applause from the audience. “Hidden Colors 3” can be thought provoking the historical interview topics and images of slave beatings, police dog attacks and Trayvon Martin protests can also provoke anger and depression.Įven the “highlights,” where the documentary interviewees bring to mind the countless inventions of African Americans, are tarnished, because it is noted that ideas were often stolen and inventors never credited for their gifts that added to the prosperity of the American life. The rules of acceptance keep changing, but the rules of racism are steadfast and ancient. What will it take to be accepted? If Blacks wear the right clothes? Get the best education? Speak the King’s English? We have “The illusion of inclusion,” says one interviewee. The film shifts from one interview to another, all centered around oppressive “rules of racism.” These rules are the antithesis of the rules that African Americans have long sought to learn: the rules to become part and parcel of the dominant American society With their assistance, “Hidden Colors 3” explores culturally-charged incidents and reveals little-known facts like George Washington Carver preferring to be thought of as gay, rather than have people know that the White family who adopted and raised him also had him castrated so that there would be no risk of him raping their daughter. He bumped into Tommy Hilfiger on board and the latter immediately asked “So, you’re going to rap for us?”ĭick Gregory, Paul Mooney and David Banner are also interviewed by Nasheed, a celebrated documentary filmmaker and New York Times best-selling author. Recording artist Nas recounts a time when he was at the Cannes Film Festival at a party on a yacht.
Nasheed has gone around the country interviewing leading scholars and historians and entertainers to get their take on the “rules of racism” and the untold history of people of color. Central Park used to be a Black township? Seneca is really wordplay on Senegal? The “stocks and bonds” of Wall Street are historically related to actual slave stocks and bonds? Wow.
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Then the educational facet of the movie catches the viewer by surprise. Another discusses the now ingrained distrust African Americans have for banks taking root during reconstruction, when “so-called” banks stole money from families, leaving them destitute. One is an identified FBI spy standing alongside Malcolm X and later infiltrating the Black Panther Party, bringing down both of the movements in the 1960s. You may even find yourself averting your eyes in efforts to focus your gaze elsewhere while watching “Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism.” The numerous images of public lynching are sickening and then the camera zooms in closer and closer to make its point clear.īut when you view the DVD, which is available for purchase (), you will find some of the interviews quite enlightening, and containing more than a few “aha” moments. In Tariq Nasheed’s third installment of “Hidden Colors,” there are disturbing graphics, educational interviews and new presentations of familiar, rumored conspiracy theories, which in the words of Arsenio Hall, will make you go “hmmmm ….”
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