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The Exceptionalism Of A Black U.s. President Is Not Important To Me. It's What He Does - And Who He Has At The Table.

The Black Power Mixtape Is A Documentary, First Of All. It Brings Us Closer To The Voices We Heard At That Particular Point In Time.

The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On.

You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality.

When You've Moved Past A Point Where You're Just Scrambling For Jobs, You Think About The Things That You Want To Do. And The Things That You Want To Do Are Governed By What You've Seen, What You Choose To Embrace