Documentaries every Afro-American must seeWith reality shows like Basketball Wives, and Real Housewives of Atlanta and others like them taking over most African American household television, it is evident that people are feeding their brain the wrong food. Do people even find documentaries entertaining enough to watch and enlighten us about different aspects of our reality as black people? Or is what displayed on the reality shows the perception of being black we want exuded to others and our younger generation. I can see why watching documentaries are only something kids watch in school or unintentionally.Reality tv shows nowaday give others the wrong idea about our values as black Americans, and the things that should be inportant to us. It is also causing people to change there values or to not have any. This alone will keep us from confronting the real issues in out lives. With all the drama, hating, and fighting presented, its almost seems the sacrafices people before us have made, and are making to improve the overall black experience is a joke. Since documentaries are a creative, truthfull way of portraying historical records,I made a list of some that should be seen by all blacks.
Good Hair(2008)
Who Killed Martin Luther King(1989)
Malcolm X: prince of Islam (2006)
A small Act (2010)
When the Levy's Broke
Street Fight(2002)
Hoop Dreams(1994)
Paris is Burning(1990)
Crips and Bloods: made in America(2008)
Tupac and Biggie(2002)
Darfur Now(2007)
Michael Jackson: This is it(2009)
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X
