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Black artists have in the past often rejected America. Some, like novelist Richard Wright, turned to communism others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...
...really the next step for Black film as well as Black politics. We have to be more critical, we have to get beyond gross over-simplifications and knee jerk responses to problems of race in this country. Sure we are the disenfranchised from the American Dream Capitalism and communism are both as owedly racist. But we're not moving beyond this rhetorical consciousness. What are we going to do next...
However, the news story reported an event whose light coverage was disproportionate to its significance: it was a matter-of-fact account of a thwarted CIA plot to overthrow Surinam's government. Convinced that the South American country's leader Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse might be soft on Communism. America's favorite foreign policy arm hatched a scheme to oust his regime, which seized power in a military coup in 1980. According to The Times' report, the CIA plan called for a paramilitary force composed primarily of Surinamese exiles to infiltrate the capital city and take over the government Maybe...
...concerns about Communism in Central America. Any government in Latin America that defends its natural resources or tries to make a dramatic break with its colonialist past is immediately slapped with a label. That is one thing that keeps Americans from seeing the pluralism that exists in Nicaragua...
...sweep of Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic warnings, there was one note of optimism: "No matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity...