![]() ![]() Other interviewees include Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother, who speaks movingly of having to defend her son during his postmortem trial by media in the midst of grieving his death. History feels even more alive when Robinson visits a slavery museum in Charleston and takes in the sight of ankle shackles meant for an enslaved child of three or four, or when he meets the daughter of Elmore Bolling, a well-to-do businessman lynched in 1947, who recalls her family’s overnight transition from prosperity to poverty after her father’s murder. One gets the sense that the vast majority of the people who came to hear Robinson’s TED Talk-style lecture agreed with him before he uttered a word - a quality they’ll likely share with the viewers of the film version of his slideshow presentation. “America has demonstrated its greatness time and time and time again,” proclaims ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson from a stage early in the new documentary Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, “and America is one of the most racist countries on the face of this earth.” When he continues, “those two things are not mutually exclusive,” the audience erupts in applause. ![]()
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