He made it with filmmaker and BLM activist Sol Guy and you wouldn’t know from the title, but it’s actually a short film, not a documentary, about Darren Wilson being a fucking liar.
Tumblr completely erasing the work of a Black activist/artist while simultaneously finding ways to slander an LGBTQ Jewish person at the same time due to literally not bothering to find out what the film was about in the first place? I’m shocked.
I’d just like to say they worked together in 2012, as well:
“Ezra Miller… and hip hop producer Sol Guy… are appearing in a documentary-style film with Last Real Indians founder Chase Iron Eyes. Their goal is to raise $9 million by the end of November to buy back a piece of land in South Dakota that Native American tribes consider sacred.”
“’I came out here with the intention of being an observer … I felt kind of removed from the story. But now, it’s fairly clear to me that nobody is removed from this story,’ Miller says in the film… ‘This story is central to all of our history and this struggle also cannot be removed. We are all inherently involved in what is going on out here.’” (X)
I don’t know if anyone has watched the video, but it’s extremely discomforting – it’s meant to show him manipulate, use his fear of being prosecuted the way he and many white people have have had no problem dishing out to give him an advantage in sympathy, to show his lies, hypocrisy, his recitations and his practicing of a false testimony as being so transparent, and to show how deeply set he is in his victim complex now that he’s backed into a corner and determined to portray himself as the good guy and deny any real blame.
Humanizing doesn’t always mean portraying positively, sometimes it means acknowledging that humanity has history and culture inseparable from racism and it looks like their solution is never exempting yourself from your own judgment no matter how flawless you think you really are. It was an analysis on the mental leaps required to justify killing the innocent because of your bigotry and how sick these mental leaps are, but they are nonetheless present in our society and are part of a massive problem. I think they’re trying to get across that these things are systemic and looking at it as an isolated incident prevents people from doing any self-reflection to check and make sure THEY’RE not perpetrating violence, + seeing it as human nature to create hate and violence gets you into the depressive mindset of there is nothing to be done and there is nothing you can do and it drifts society into apathy and makes you feel isolated and hopeless and that doesn’t help anyone. Instead encouraging introspection and self-critique and constant bettering ourselves & facilitating change and surrounding ourselves with that mindset instead I think is what they’re going for.
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