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— Raoul Peck"You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this."
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[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.
— Raoul Peck
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