Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
- Release Date: February 4, 2022 (limited)
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler, Sean Willis
- Producer(s): Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler, Jeffery Roberson
- Writer(s): Jeffery Robinson
- Studio: Mongrel Media
- Length: 1h 57m
Synopsis
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
He takes a look at a law passed in 1669 that stated, "An enslaved person's death while resisting a master is not a felony." Robinson points out that if you think of videos you've seen in the past 10 years, with Black people being chased down and murdered, you'll realize: "It's still not a felony."