i didn't like what white wilson said something to the effect of "you won't be here if slavery hadn't happened". i just don't know who gave people, who think like that, the idea that you want to live your life without the ability to make you r own choices. that's a supremist mentality. and black people who thank god for slavery cuz they "not walkin around naked africa with constant aids famine n wars" r just kept ignorant, keep themselves ignorant, or hate themselves & want to be white.

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Moving. That is the one word that describes your trailer. It really gives chills. It also really gives the overall feel of enlightenment acheived by the end. I hope that there is- that you came in with one expectation and found something more fulfilling all together.  The trailer definitely has that "discovery" feel to it. Like archeologists on a dig - that find some unknown truth that changes how we view a peice of history. I imagine that most people, as myself, are perhaps "turned off" by the reparation question, -- ("that's not supposed to be what you are there for...") but that is also how the trailer really grabbed my attention.-- what will he say??  I think it is paired profoundly with the question of whether he has gained from his family's having had slaves.-- what can he say? Wow, I am just really moved and really want to find out what David Wilson learns at the end. Is it possible that together they can show us something we never saw before?
 

Excellent topic, going back to the past to understand the present.  what festivals will you be showing the film at. ? tracie
 

I would like to see black people where ever they are in the geto suburbs, or pimping women in some city or town. I would like them to take a solid look at themselves, and their lives. ask a simple question am I living of just moving through an endless cycle of compromise?or just taking what we can get and getting nothing at all. we are a broken people feeling shame over something which should be healed as a badge of honor, we make our children feel less then there white counter parts, its unconscious unintended but just a devastating. we send our children off to war to fight for a freedom they have yet to experience. I don't know what to do about parents like mine, but what I do know is that we need to build our own safety nets, and connect.
 

Wow!!! Watching your trailer really inspired me to think about doing my own documentary. I too have been tracing my family roots. I first began after watching African-American lives last year. Within a few months of research on Ancestry.com, I was able to connect with a decendant of the man who owned my family. Along with that blessing came a new friendship. Who would have thought that a 24 year old black guy would be frineds with a middle aged white lady lol..Not me! We've never met but we have been emailing each other for the past year and she has been a great help. But there is more...I just hope to be as blessed as you are to find it.
 

Why isn't this documentary getting much media attention? I found it on an accident.


I hope you told David a thing or two when he said if slavery never happened that you probably wouldn't be here.


I hope you told him, what makes him think that we would want to be here, and if other immigrants found their way to these shores what makes him think that Africans couldn't have done the same....

You should really accomplished for making this film....best of success to you
 

It was a great documentary, i really enjoyed the discussion on stage with msnbc. does anyone know the name of the song that was played at the end of the documentary, it sounded like a gospel song.