USA Africa Dialogue Series - 'We Don't Know Each Other': Film Explores Tension Between Africans & African Americans

 

"The film "Bound: Africans vs. African Americans" details bloody histories of institutional racism on two continents, but the part that got a rise out of some 100 Rainier Beach High School students was a part that deals with an issue closer to their heart: dating.

Halfway through the film, an African woman speaking on camera tells the story of getting approached by an African-American man in a nightclub who told her he wasn't typically attracted to African women.

 

That got the audience at Rainier Beach buzzing at a recent preview screening. While about half of the school's students share a skin color — some of them identifying as African, some of them as African American, they don't necessarily share a culture."

 

 

'We Don't Know Each Other': Film Explores Tension Between Africans & African Americans

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