I am a young Black man in America who is working in systemically racist institutions filled with conscious and unconscious biases. I created this film to express my point of view and the POV of other Black men and women who for generations have been held back by others, under the guise of kindness and helpfulness, yet kept under an unyielding yoke that treats us as less than equal. 

With this film, we

Dive into the micro-aggression mind game – its effects on our psyche and mental health and the scars it leaves that are never addressed in our community;  

Explore the root of why we are taught by our parents from a very young age that we need to be “twice as good to get half as much”; and lastly,

For US, get to the root of what is labelled as “the angry black man” and show that King. He isn’t angry; he isn’t flying off the handle, being aggressive or irrational; he’s just dealing with you the best that he can. 

Finally, to non-Black Americans, this piece is in hopes that they see themselves and have an honest revelation of what part they play in this world, which is not an exaggeration, but a mirror of our reality. Are you an “ally”? Are you an oppressor? Do you see us as less than? Do you see us? Do you respect us? Or is your comfort in your silence, believing that because you aren’t the one dishing it out, that you are innocent, when truly you are equally a part of the problem by being a SILENT bystander to the oppression?

Roderick Lawrence