Their Accomplices Wore Robes (short documentary)

For publishing my book Their Accomplices Wore Robes (link to purchase) my wife asked me what I wanted as a gift. I told her I wanted a camera I could create video content with. After choosing the one I wanted, she bought it for me:

A Fujifilm X-M5.

For the last few weeks, I spent almost all of my free time learning (and with a 5-year old and a 8-month old, I didn’t have a lot of that). How to use this camera. How to create videos. What I wanted my videos to look like. What I wanted my videos to feel like. How they should sound. How to edit them in DaVinci Resolve Studio. How to color grade. Just a lot of learning. During this time I was also writing pieces like this one: https://ballsandstrikes.org/guest-essay/their-accomplices-wore-robes-brando-simeo-starkey-caste-system/.

After a lot of work, I want to share with you this short documentary I did for one of the main arguments in the book—how we talk about racial oppression using the wrong language, and how that works all manner of mischief in creating a society free of a racial caste system. I hope you find time to watch it. Then like, subscribe, and leave a comment!

I’m going to keep doing videos like this, and will use this newsletter as a place where I can continue to hone my voice. I see a symbiotic relationship between this newsletter, and my YouTube channel, each making the other better, sharper.