Today's Cinema Is A Proliferation Of Comedies,

But Rarely Have I Made Choices That Made Me Feel I Was Really Compromising What I Believe.

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.

Im A Child Of The Civil Rights Movement.

It's A Misconception To Believe That The Resistance Ended With The Civil Rights Movement.

Lethal Weapon 2 Used The Platform To Talk About The Apartheid System. That Was A Very Important Moment For Us.