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The YouTube Effect Director Alex Winter

The Movies That Made Me

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Frederick Wiseman's Documentary to the Cut Follies

I remember when Roots was on TV when I was a kid and I went to public school of St. Louis at that age, which was 80% black. And you know, my best friend was black because all my friends,. they were black and he didn't really know that slavery had happened. You know, we were really young. So it's not like super shocking, but, but you do, I remember even then just thinking cheese. Now to fast forward again, all these years later, we're like, they're trying to make it illegal to teach these kinds of histories is really staggering yeah. We're now into the 60s where people are experimenting with dystopia, right

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