Baldwin exposed America's existential dilemma of its ideals vs how it actually treated black people
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary about author James Baldwin. It features Samuel L. Jackson as the narrator. The film explores Baldwin’s thoughts and ideas on America and its problems with race. It takes an unfinished book he started as a jumping off point to explore his opinions.<br /><br />Remember This House was to be a story of America portrayed through three of Baldwin’s slain friends, NAACP member Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X. Unfortunately, the author never wrote more than 30 pages of notes. Baldwin wanted to play the three men against each other because they were so very different to bring out some truths about the period. King and Malcolm for example grew up with completely opposite backgrounds and had divergent ideas on how to deal with racism. Malcolm relentlessly attacked King and his non-violent approach for example calling him an Uncle Tom. By the time of his death however, he had come closer to King’s ideas. What Baldwin admired about all three men was that they exposed the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the United States. As Baldwin said in one TV interview, whites denied that blacks were even human beings. In so doing they had become monsters. Evers, King and Malcolm would eventually lose their lives in this struggle for the soul of America.<br /><br />The manuscript is only a small part of I Am Not Your Negro however as it is really about Baldwin’s ideas about race in the United States. He talked about his elementary school teacher who taught him about the world, and made him realize that not all white people were bad. He commented upon how he grew up watching Westerns rooting on the cowboys for killing Indians, only later to realize that the Indians were him, meaning African Americans and other minorities who were the lesser other that were to be subjugated and eliminated to make way for whites. Baldwin was also an iconoclast. He wasn’t in the Nation of Islam because he didn’t think all whites were devils. He wasn’t part of a Christian church because he knew whites didn’t follow its commandments. He didn’t join the NAACP because where he grew up in New York it was an elitist, upper class organization. He spoke about how blacks were the exploited free labor that helped build the country. This is really the heart of the film. Baldwin was an activist and an intellectual of his times who would constantly write, speak and comment upon racism and how it was rotting out the core of the country. He dug down deep into what America said it stood for and how it actually treated black folk. This wasn’t about an individual problem such as a racist cop, but an existential dilemma for the future of the United States.<br /><br />Overall I Am Not Your Negro has it’s good and bad sides. Most importantly Baldwin was an eloquent speaker and thinker with deep and biting comments about America and how it had failed to live up to its ideals of freedom and democracy. On the other hand, the movie could have been better edited. It tries to break up Baldwin’s ideas into different categories, but many of them overlap. I think the problem director Raoul Peck might have run into was that there was so much material to choose from he found it hard to say no. This is still a powerful movie that still explains many of the country’s ongoing issues with race.
The movie title "I Am Not Your Negro," available on Prime Video, has received an average rating of 4.8 from 2393 reviewers. 
It features elements such as IMDb 7.9, 1 h 34 min, 2017, X-Ray and PG-13, and it is priced at $12.99.

This title falls under the categories of Documentary, Inspiring, Introspective and Touching. 
The additional details include the following in key-value format :
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, Raoul Peck completed a documentary film version of the novel Baldwin never finished—a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers..