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Another wonderful instance of unintended consequences:
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In the spring of 2022, Ibram X. Kendi was recognized as one of the most banned authors in America. The National Book Award winner’s passionate reporting on the permeation of racist ideas throughout American history riled up conservative proponents, leading to three of Kendi’s tomes being banned in six school districts across multiple states. Now, his efforts to expose racist ideology is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Stamped From the Beginning.
In their efforts to silence speech they find inconveniently true, conservatives have instead created a much wider audience for that speech.
“You can’t ban Netflix,” Williams tells Rolling Stone. “You can ban Kendi’s books, you can ban the 1619 Project, you can ban all this stuff, but you can’t ban Netflix. It’s in every home.”
Discussions around the 92-minute documentary began after the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 and the nationwide protests against police brutality in its wake.
Kendi’s 2019 book How to be an Antiracist subsequently experienced a surge in book sales, reaching the top of The New York Times bestsellers list.
Williams reveals it took three years to transform Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America into a film.
How much more good will inadvertently come from conservative efforts to destroy free speech and disregard the constitutional right to free expression?
How much damage do conservatives do to themselves as they continue to attempt to shred the Constitution?
A Banned Book on Racism Becomes a Gripping Netflix Documentary
Author Ibram X. Kendi and filmmaker Roger Ross Williams hope their Netflix doc Stamped From the Beginning will raise some big questions
In the spring of 2022, Ibram X. Kendi was recognized as one of the most banned authors in America. The National Book Award winner’s passionate reporting on the permeation of racist ideas throughout American history riled up conservative proponents, leading to three of Kendi’s tomes being banned in six school districts across multiple states. Now, his efforts to expose racist ideology is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Stamped From the Beginning.
In their efforts to silence speech they find inconveniently true, conservatives have instead created a much wider audience for that speech.
“You can’t ban Netflix,” Williams tells Rolling Stone. “You can ban Kendi’s books, you can ban the 1619 Project, you can ban all this stuff, but you can’t ban Netflix. It’s in every home.”
Discussions around the 92-minute documentary began after the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 and the nationwide protests against police brutality in its wake.
Kendi’s 2019 book How to be an Antiracist subsequently experienced a surge in book sales, reaching the top of The New York Times bestsellers list.
Williams reveals it took three years to transform Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America into a film.
How much more good will inadvertently come from conservative efforts to destroy free speech and disregard the constitutional right to free expression?
How much damage do conservatives do to themselves as they continue to attempt to shred the Constitution?
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