Who Gets to Tell a Black Story? ⇒
19 May 2010, early morning
A long article from the New York Times on the making of The Corner, and how issues of race played out. David Simon is a White man writing about Black people. There are going to be people who feel no mater how much time he spends with the people he is writing about, his stories can never truly be authentic. Surprisingly, Charles S. Dutton, tasked with directing Simon’s script, is one of those people. Dutton sounds like a pretty remarkable fellow, and a very fiery man:
I know the pulse of this. I know what people think the minute they walk out them doors. I know what mothers feel when their sons and daughters walk out of the house to go to school. I know what it feels like to kill somebody. I know what it feels like to get shot. I know what it feels like that people be looking to kill me. I don’t have to show up as a crime journalist after the fact.
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That was an absolutely amazing article.
by M on May 19 2010, 12:19 pm #
Seriously. I think it was a longer series that they are presenting online as one piece. I was listening to an interview with Bunt and Bubbles where the interviewer brought up the fact Dutton wasn’t completely enamored with Simon, so I thought i’d try and track down that online.
by ramanan on May 19 2010, 1:57 pm #