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{SPEAKER name="Clyde Taylor"}
the mental colonization that Black people and other Americans suffer.
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He said on one occasion, "The biggest obstacle to the Black Revolution in America
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is our conditioned susceptibility to the White man's programming."
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In short, the fact is, that the White man has colonized our minds.
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We've been violated, confused, and drained by this colonization.
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And from this brutal, calculated genocide,
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the most effective, ambitious racism has grown.
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And it is with this starting point in mind,
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and the intention to reverse the process,
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that I went into cinema, in the first effing place."
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{SPEAKER name="Clyde Taylor"}
I won't say exactly what he said, [[laughter from audience]] because this is Sunday, and so forth. [[chatter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Clyde Taylor"}
Uh, another quotation that, uh, maybe I don't need to quote the whole thing,
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uh, is generally the same point.
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"I think that any American's mind has a degree of colonization.
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I don't know about others, but this particular film
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is a complete breakaway from a certain way of thinking,
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which leads intellectually into more difficulty for understanding."
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I think, essentially, the same thing;
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he might think of "Sweetback" as a very simple film to understand.
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But, it may also be a difficult film to understand
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because it does, it tries not to follow our normal ways
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of perceiving a film and uh, our normal ways of interpreting.
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So I think that, if I'm-- as I look at the film,
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looking at it for "Post-aesthetic" ideas and perspectives,
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I look at it, at its organization, first of all.
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And its organization seems to me to spring--
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its sources seem to me to spring from black music,
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from black music that's heard from the radio.
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I should pause here and point out to you that one of the things that Van Peebles did
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that many people don't recognize; he wrote five novels in France
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in order to be qualified to become a director.
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But another thing he did - he's a very multi-talented man - was to produce
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two or three record albums; I believe they came out before "Sweetback."
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And these were record albums of a, uh, very peculiar sort.
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Very much in the 1960s mode. They were satirical; they were almost like rap.
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They were a bit of music, a bit of chanting,
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uh, some street poetry, and uh--
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