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The Second Amendment Comes From The Right To Protect Themselves From Slave Revolts, And From Uprisings By Native Americans. A Revolt From People Who Were Stolen From Their Land Or Revolt From People Whose Land Was Stolen From, That's What The Genesis Of The Second Amendment Is.

Those Titles, Executive Producer Or Actor, Are Unimportant. I Always Try To Approach My Role As An Artist. The First Thing You Want To Do, That You Attempt To Do As An Artist, Is To Have Some Sort Of Input Into The Material That You Are Working On. That Is How My Process Begins; I Say To Myself: "i Want To Do This Kind Of Work Or I Want To Do That Kind Of Work."

I Was Able To Do The Saint Of Fort Washington, On The Relationship Between Two Homeless Men.

The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On. So You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality. All These Things Gave Rise To The Black Power Movement. The Black Power Movement Was Not A Separation From The Civil Rights Movement, But A Continuation Of This Whole Process Of Democratization.

President Obama Is A Man Who Had Certain Advantages Because Of The Civil Rights Movement. He Had The Opportunity To Go To Some Of The Best Schools In This Country - Schools That Train You How To Run The Political Paradigm, Not Challenge It. The Leaders Of The Black Power Movement Were Challenging That Paradigm.