![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But many such projects also ask these viewers to examine their own complicity in discrimination against Black people in America. Great art tells universal stories out of specific experiences, and it is possible and even desirable for white viewers to find personal resonance in the experiences of protagonists in movies like Do the Right Thing or 12 Years a Slave. There’s a risk of coming off as patronizing at best and appropriative at worst, of seemingly trying to relate the pain, trauma, and horror that often rests on Black Americans to the personal pains white viewers may face in day-to-day life. It is inevitably fraught for a white critic like me to discuss a work of art specifically about the Black American experience. ![]()
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