Watched Street Fight last night. I strongly recommend this movie, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary. It is about the 2002 mayoral election in Newark, a city with similar problems to the city where I live. I expected it to be interesting because of my experiences here, and because it is an inside look at an election, but as the film progresses, the outrages build. A reminder of how fragile democracy is.
It also begins to explore self-defeating beliefs of some poor African-American communities; I think we may see this again in the upcoming election with respect to Barak Obama. Is he really black, and so forth.
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