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Reviews
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM (2022)
Poorly done, self-reinforcing bias project
Candace took a previously failed documentary on Floyd and fused it with new "research" on BLM to make a "documentary" here. It's simply a biased rant about her personal beliefs that either don't align with facts (George Floyd part) or don't prove any wrongdoing or illegalities (BLM). One can dislike how BLM has chosen to disperse funds but that doesn't make it "corrupt." One can recognize that Floyd had drugs in his system and also that it was the police who caused his death and not the drugs. Paying someone's rent off for them makes their testimony questionable as well (Floyd's roommates). This is basically just biased, subjective opinions circularly supporting each other. Zero objectivity and not a holistically researched documentary.
Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey (2022)
Shallow, Cherry-Picked, Clearly a Simplistic, Subjective Opinion/Church Advertisment
This "documentary" is no better than part one. It's simply different in how it pushes religion and a cherry-picked, narrow perspective of Black American history. This time, instead of telling multiple stories about individual journeys of financial success, it's basically just an advertisement for the "Christian" church by many people who claim to be Christians but do hateful videos outside of this movie.
They also conveniently leave out that "the Church" was never a part of "Black culture" until it was forced upon and beaten into African slaves. In comparing said Christianity to Marxism (demonizing Marx, of course), they conveniently ignore that Christianity has been the most murderous religion in human history and that capitalism continues to kill 20 million people annually despite those it may also help. It's a simplistic, biased, narrow-minded perspective, not a historically accurate, holistic documentary. Pretty worthless unless you live in the same echo chamber and just want to feel your beliefs being reinforced by the like-minded.
Candace Owens (2021)
Hyper-partisan hate.
I've rarely (possibly never) seen more hyper-partisan, hate-filled, cherry-picked, half-truth, fallacious buffoonery in my entire life.
Uncle Tom (2020)
Interesting but misleadingly partisan and hypocritical.
I already knew that this would have a conservative bias which there is nothing wrong with. There is nothing wrong with being black and conservative in America. The problem is the hypocrisy of tearing down other black Americans that disagree with you by questioning their "blackness" (Colin Kaepernick) or judging them for their checkered past that they overcame (Jay-Z). Another issue is the cherry-picking of historical facts to try and pretend that all racism and racial violence against black Americans historically stem specifically and only from the Democratic Party which anyone with an education knows is patently false and neither major political party is the same today as it was in 1950, let alone 1850. Add statistical cherry-picking that doesn't address the entirety of racial inequality studies and inconsistencies that creates a fallacious basis for many of the post-racial America points of view is more propaganda than fact. It's also interesting that it tends to celebrate education as long as it's conservative and agreeable. This is the hypocrisy again of seeming intent on creating more division in tearing down other black folks who disagree rather than trying to actually teach and uplift. Some very good individual success stories but very little relatability for many black Americans with very different backgrounds and experiences.